Studies in social psychology in World War II: A special review.

1951 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 512-519
Author(s):  
Daniel Katz
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
Special Review

scholarly journals The Occupied City as a Sociological Laboratory: Developing and Applying Social Psychology in Warsaw 1939-1945

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 587-601
Author(s):  
Friedrich Cain
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
Social Existence ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Moral Boundaries

The article explores the sociopsychological considerations made by Polish sociologist Stanisław Ossowski (1897-1963) during World War II in reaction to his specific experiences in Soviet-occupied Lwów and German-occupied Warsaw. Based on readings of Ossowski’s publications and so far unpublished archival material, the influences and practical consequences of permanently observed violations of ethical and moral boundaries in that “great sociological laboratory” of war and occupation shall be traced in the texts he wrote during that time. As a member of a group of engineers, town planners, and architects, Ossowski sketched various psycho- and sociotechnical means of controlling that should guarantee for a peaceful social existence of free individuals in a new Polish state. Particular attention will be directed to the specific difficulties of attaining, communicating, and distributing knowledge in the de facto doubled cities that developed along the lines of opposition between the occupying and the occupied.

Measurement and Prediction (Studies in Social Psychology in World War II, Vol. IV).

1950 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 811
Author(s):  
F. Stuart Chapin ◽  
Samuel A. Stouffer ◽  
Louis Guttman ◽  
Edward A. Suchman ◽  
Paul F. Lazarsfeld ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
World War

Studies in Social Psychology in World War II. Vol. IV, Measurement and Prediction

1950 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 255
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Harte ◽  
Samuel A. Stouffer ◽  
Louis Guttman ◽  
Edward A. Suchman ◽  
Paul F. Lazarsfeld ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
World War

Experiments on Mass Communication. (Studies in Social Psychology in World War II, Vol. III).

1950 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 448
Author(s):  
Clyde W. Hart ◽  
Carl I. Hovland ◽  
Arthur A. Lumsdaine ◽  
Fred D. Sheffield
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
World War

History of Social Psychology at Mid-20th Century

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas F. Pettigrew
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Psychology ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Political Science ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
World War ◽  
The Social

The discipline of psychology has an extremely broad range—from the life sciences to the social sciences, from neuroscience to social psychology. These distinctly different components have varying histories of their own. Social psychology is psychology’s social science wing. The major social sciences—anthropology, economics, sociology, and political science—all had their origins in the 19th century or even earlier. But social psychology is much younger; it developed both in Europe and North America in the 20th century. The field’s enormous growth over the past century began modestly with a few scant locations, several textbooks, and a single journal in the 1920s. Today’s social psychologists would barely recognize their discipline in the years prior to World War II. But trends forming in the 1920s and 1930s would become important years later. With steady growth, especially starting in the 1960s, the discipline gained thousands of new doctorates and multiple journals scattered throughout the world. Social psychology has become a recognized, influential, and often-cited social science. It is the basis, for example, of behavioral economics as well as such key theories as authoritarianism in political science. Central to this extraordinary expansion were the principal events of mid-20th century. World War II, the growth of universities and the social sciences in general, rising prosperity, statistical advances, and other global changes set the stage for the discipline’s rapid development. Together with this growth, social psychology has expanded its topics in both the affective and cognitive domains. Indeed, new theories are so numerous that theoretical integration has become a prime need for the discipline.

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