Essays on Social Psychology

Known as one of the most intensively studied theories, Cognitive Dissonance (CD) theory was developed by American social psychologist Leon Festinger in 1957. He proposed individuals have a core belief system that affects attitude and actions. When conflict to this core arises, a person naturally...

What would come to students mind when they hear the team work at class or at university? Students may think that it is a bit of annoying or, for new comers it may seem as a disaster. Team work usually teaches students many skills by...

In 1973, John Darley and Daniel Baston from Princeton University decided to research the effects of different time constraints on a person’s willingness to help someone in need. In their study “From Jerusalem to Jericho”: A study of situational and dispositional variables in helping behavior”...

Mahatma Gandhi once said, “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” We all need forgiveness, and we all need to give forgiveness. Forgiveness can transfer anger and hostility into peace and healing. Forgiveness can help people overcome feeling of depression...

According to Maslow, human beings have different types of needs that can be categorized into five levels, from the lowest to the highest: Physiological needs Safety needs Love/Belonging needs Esteem needs Self-Actualization needs According to the theory, only when lower level needs are satisfied, does...

Introduction The mental idea of the Stanford Prison investigation was that Zimbardo and his partners were keen on seeing whether the mercilessness among gatekeepers in America and penitentiaries was because of the twisted characters of the watchmen or had more to do with the jail...

The future of social psychology is changing moving forward as it has been since the origin in the 1800s. In the 1970s, there was a revolution based around cognition and needing more diverse methods and better data analysis techniques. In the 1980s, the focus shifted...

New York: the place where one’s dreams come true. At least, this is how it appears to outsiders. However, upon a closer examination of New York, a harsher truth comes out. As seen in the play Thoroughly Modern Millie, the social class one is born...

A study done in England had four hundred and three children from 16 different classes in 16 different schools participating in a research study to determine how children who stutter are socially accepted. The age ranged from 8 to 14 years old with the mean...

The film 12 Angry Men is a story about a jury trying to come to a verdict on a murder case. The case involves a young boy who has been accused of murdering his father. Initially, all the jurors agree that the boy is guilty,...

Stress is simply the body’s response to changes that create taxing demands. Cao (2016) suggested that there is a difference between eustress, which is a term for positive stress, and distress, which refers to negative stress. In daily life, we often use the term “stress”...

Psychology is something we can learn from the weather from history, current concerns or future considerations. However, by looking at it right now is insufficient to explain why modern psychology evolved as it did. In order to understand its interests and dealings with life, we...

Prozac Nation chronicles a bright 19-year-old woman’s struggle with depression. Elizabeth “Lizzie” Wurtzel is an aspiring writer and freshman at Harvard University. With a childhood plagued by divorce and abandonment, Lizzie has a history of depressive episodes and self-confidence issues. The book is set in...

See Consumer Engagement That Others Don’t Stop doing what everyone else is doing and be creative about how your brand engages with consumers. For example, Beyoncé launched her most recent album in a unique way that would fully leverage her relationship with her fans and...

What is psychology, what is science, is psychology considered science or art? We can easily answer the first two questions but to decide whether psychology is science or art has been a never-ending debate. Psychology has earned its place when Wilhelm Wundt set up the...

I cannot remember the day I began to take interest in the medical field. I do not have a story about dealing with a childhood illness or an experience in an emergency room. All I remember is wanting to play doctor while my friends played...

Morality vs Evil Nature Psychology is the way that human beings are able to get a deeper understanding of each other. The people that study psychology experience astonishing outcomes of the ways of mankind. Dr. Phillip Zimbardo is a psychologist known for his research on...

It’s often said that it’s better to give than receive but did you know that this is actually backed up by research? While many of us feel too stressed and busy to worry about helping others or say we’ll focus on doing good deeds when...

Primo Levi, an Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor, once said that “Monsters exist, but they are far too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.” When...

If we refer to criticism we have to take in count that it practice the judging of something or someone. When a new major discover is released or an event of great magnitude occurs it is expected to be criticized in many aspects. We can...

Racism is defined as prejudice, discrimination, and antagonism directed towards someone of a different race. However, when a definition of subconscious racism is searched for, the majority of articles suggest that people of color are the only victims of subconscious racism. When someone brings up...

Introduction Nature can be defined as to what abilities we present with at birth, ability can be determined by our genes; including those that we develop with age. Both a biological and evolutionary perspective support the model that our behaviour is determined by nature. Nurture...

Cognitive dissonance is an individual’s psychological discomfort caused by two inconsistent thoughts. It refers to a situation involving conflicting attitudes, beliefs or behaviors. This then produces a feeling of mental discomfort leading to a change in one of the attitudes, beliefs or behaviors to reduce...

Contentions in the psychological literature abound when it comes to intrapsychic phenomena, and self-deception is no exception. Self-deception is understandably difficult to measure, since it is difficult to discern whether a person is subconsciously aware of the truth or not. It is even further to...

In the context of Personnel Psychology, job performance may refer to actions or behaviors that can be measured and that are relevant to the goals of an organization. These actions or behaviors can further be separated into three separate categories; these include task performance, organizational...

Personality is thought to impact sport performance. There are several theories which help us believe that personalities have an effect on how sport performers handle sport. It is how we see if sports impact us is by doing different tests to see what categories we...

Abstract Attraction and exclusion were examined in affective processing, in the context of research of scholarly literature and popular culture. Attraction and exclusion are higher in high schools than any other environment. Attractive physical appearance has its downsides and upsides. Exclusion in homo sapiens can...

The Ballet and Indlamu performance are forms of dance that have derived from decades of history with one representing a more Eurocentric view whilst the other is representative of the African Zulu people. These dance forms are respectfully both held in high regards in connection...

I Initially meant to compose a submit concerning’One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ from Ken Kesey all through Banned Books Week (27th September — third oct ). I dropped considerably behind with my viewing and finding out prohibited novels shouldn’t be confined to a single...

Implicit Bias Plan Prejudice is an ugly blemish on the face of humanity, and the ability of mankind to completely eradicate it is debatable. While it is generally known that prejudice or biases are in fact wrong and socially unacceptable, this social norm can tend...