Social Psychology of Everyday Life

1982 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 200-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence J. Strieker
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Everyday Life

Social Psychology and Everyday Life

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darrin Hodgetts ◽  
Neil Drew ◽  
Christopher Sonn ◽  
Ottilie Stolte ◽  
Linda Waimarie Nikora ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Everyday Life

On queueing

2001 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-185
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Czwartosz
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Community Life ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Scientific Terms ◽  
Held Back

A year ago Dr. Jacek Kurczewski asked me to take part in a symposium which he organized with the Polish Sociological Association, on the sociology of everyday life. The subject of my session was to be the sociology of the queue. As a psychologist I could, of course, interpret the phenomenon of the queue in terms of the interdependence of individual interests and social justice. Theses of social psychology, based on empirical grounds, provided some explanations of the mechanisms of behaviour in a queue. These explanations, however, led to trivial conclusions, though expressed in scientific terms. Therefore I decided to choose phenomenological analysis to deal with queue behaviour. This paper is a widened and more analytical version of my speech at the PSA seminar (I). I was inspired by three events from my personal experience:1. In Western Europe (especially in Belgium) I frequently encountered the following phenomenon. In a shop someone would come up to the counter and ask for some article, paying no attention to the fact that there were also others who were waiting to be served. To me that fact was an open violation of the rules of community life. My emotion urged me to intervene. I was held back however by the fact that the others in the shop seemed not to notice anything wrong. This would suggest that my notion of customers' rights and duties differed from that of Belgians or Dutchmen.

Social Psychology and Everyday Life.

1975 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 298
Author(s):  
Stephan P. Spitzer ◽  
Billy J. Franklin ◽  
Frank J. Kohout
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Everyday Life

Editorial Foreword: Applying Existential Social Psychology to Mental Health

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 229-237
Author(s):  
Kenneth E. Vail ◽  
Daniel Sullivan ◽  
Mark J. Landau ◽  
Jeff Greenberg
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Psychology ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Functioning ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The World ◽  
Editorial Foreword ◽  
Existential Concerns

Human existence is characterized by some rather unique psychological challenges. Because people can reflect on their lives and place in the world, they are regularly confronted with a variety of existential concerns: death and mortality; the burdens of freedom; uncertainty regarding one's identity; isolation from others; and indeterminate meaning in life. Existential social psychology (Greenberg, Koole, & Pyszczynski, 2004; Vail & Routledge, 2020) investigates whether and how such existential concerns shape everyday life and, as highlighted in the present special issue, how such processes impact mental health and social functioning.

Afterthoughts on biases in history perception

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-90
Author(s):  
Maciej Dymkowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Cognitive Biases ◽  
Social Information ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
The West ◽  
Sequence Of Events ◽  
Cultural Sphere ◽  
Common Sense Psychology

Afterthoughts on biases in history perception Contemporary social psychology describes various deformations of processing social information leading to distortions of knowledge about other people. What is more, a person in everyday life refers to lay convictions and ideas common in his/her cultural environment that distort his/her perceptions. Therefore it is difficult to be surprised that authors of narrations in which participants of history are presented use easily available common-sense psychology, deforming images of both the participants of history and their activities, as well as the sequence of events determined by these activities. Which cognitive biases, how often, and in what intensity they will be presented in historical narrations depend on statements of dominating common-sense psychology. The article outlines some biases made by historian-lay psychologists, such as attributional asymmetry or hindsight effects, whose occurrence in their thinking, as formed in the cultural sphere of the West, influences history perception and conducted historical interpretations.

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