Social Psychology

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Social Psychology

Advantages

  • High Ecological Validity
  • Useful
  • Participant Observation - lowers demand characteristics/socially desirable answers

Disadvantages

  • Generalisability
  • Lack Aetological validity?
  • Lacks control
  • Low ethics

Evaluation

Assumes that our behaviour is influenced by interactions with other people and our surrounding environmentCore Studies: Milgram, Reicher and Haslam, Piliavin Forensic Studies: Farrington, McCord, Zimbardo, Asch, Dannenberg, Eberhardt Health Studies: Waxler-Morrisson, Ford and Widiger

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