21.08.2013 |
magazine issue | 06/2007
written by Dennis Fox
Five Social Psychology Essentials
keywords:
empirical assumptions / psychology / multiple interacting causes
Five Social Psychology Essentials
Social psychology teaches critical thinking about social behavior, or at least that's what we teachers like to think. It's comforting to believe that the field we've spent years studying will help our students see the world anew. We're glad when students show signs of internalizing a social psychological perspective. More often than we like to admit, though, students have trouble seeing the point. Sometimes they tell us the subject matter is obvious. Sometimes they think it's... / more