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Their approach to the field focuses on the individual and attempts to explain how the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals are influenced by other people. Psychologically oriented researchers emphasize the immediate social situation and the interaction between person and situation variables. Their research tends to be empirical and quantitative, and it is often centered around laboratory experiments, but there are some computational modeling efforts in the field. Sun, R. (2008). The Cambridge Handbook of Computational Psychology. Cambridge University Press, New York. 2008 Psychologists who study social psychology are interested in such topics as attitudes, social cognition, cognitive dissonance, social influence, and interpersonal behaviors such as altruism, aggression and persecution. Three influential journals for the publication of research in this area are the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology , and the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin . There are also many other general and specialized social psychology journals.
Some of their major research areas are social inequality, group dynamics, social change, socialization, social identity, and symbolic interactionism. The key sociological journal is Social Psychology Quarterly.
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