Social Psychology Experiments and Human Behavior

Social psychology examines how social situations shape people’s actions, thoughts, and attitudes. It uses the scientific method to study everyday interactions between people who may be near each other, far apart, or even online. This makes the field especially useful for understanding behavior in modern life.

The field of social psychology really gets to the heart of our nature, which is that humans are social animals. We study how the social context affects our actions and thoughts and behavior, and we do it through a number of lenses. We study everything from real interpersonal interactions in the lab all the way to the behavior of tens or hundreds...