social psychology

plural social psychologies

1. countableuncountableThe interplay between the individual and society.

   It is essential to identify user perspectives and relate their social psychology to meaningful trust determinants in the system to be automated.

   2014, Sjouke Mauw, Christian Damsgaard Jensen, Security and Trust Management, →ISBN

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   Before we discuss our two main objectives, however, and present illustrations and our specific hypotheses, an overview of social movements and their social psychology will help put our ideas in the broader context to which they are directed.

   2000, Sheldon Stryker, Timothy Joseph Owens, Robert W. White, Self, Identity, and Social Movements, →ISBN, page 191

   Georg Simmel (1902) pointed out that the money economy pervasive in a city fosters individualism, blasé attitudes, and secondary relations, thus linking urbanism with a particular social psychology.

   2006, Mohammad Qadeer, Pakistan - Social and Cultural Transformations in a Muslim Nation, →ISBN

   The roots of black crime are threefold: a different social psychology resulting from blacks' exclusion from the dominant experience with factory, bureaucracy, and schooling; a heritage of economic and other insecurities; and a long and complex experience with criminal activity.

   2015, Orlando Patterson, The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth, →ISBN, page 107

2. countableuncountableThe study of how people and groups interact.