Essays on Social Psychology

When people come to know each other in a relationship, they participate in a reciprocal process of self-disclosure that helps them understand each other better, as proposed by psychologists Dalmas Taylor and Irwin Altman in their theory of social penetration. The process of communicating with each other in order to...

Albert Bandura, a psychologist who was born on December 4, 1925, in Mundare, northern Alberta, Canada, foresaw a social learning theory in 1977 and is a strong proponent of the idea that learning is primarily a process of observation, imitation, and modeling. Bandura's idea combines parts of operant conditioning, classical...

Stereotyping is a social science activities in which some belief of particular groups of individuals or various types of actions that are supposed to portray a population as a whole is universally embraced. Perceived thoughts do not always conform to reality. There are many conceptualizations of stereotyping in psychology, but...

Egocentrism Egocentrism is defined as the inability to differentiate between oneself and the other (Kail and Cavanaugh 7). It is the inability to untangle the associated emotional schemas from that of empirical actuality. It is merely the inability to grasp any point of view other than one's own. Egocentrism is prevalent...

Social psychology is a field of psychology that deals specifically with multiple social experiences related to their originality and their influence on people. Social psychology is the discipline in which York seeks to break down the enigmatic ways in which individuals lead their lives and explain the means for credible...