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===19th century===
In the 19th century, social psychology began to emerge from the larger field of [[psychology]]. At the time, many psychologists were concerned with developing concrete explanations for the different aspects of [[human nature]]. They attempted to discover concrete [[Causality|cause-and-effect]] relationships that explained social interactions. In order to do so, they applied the scientific method to human behavior.<ref>{{cite journal | last1= Gergen | first1= K. J. | year= 1973 | title= Social Psychology as History | journal= Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | volume= 26 | issue= 2 | pages= 309–320 | doi= 10.1037/h0034436 | url= http://www.swarthmore.edu/kenneth-gergen/available-manuscripts | access-date= 17 November 2019 | archive-date= 22 October 2019 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20191022100757/https://www.swarthmore.edu/kenneth-gergen/available-manuscripts | url-status= live }}</ref> One of the first published studies in the field was [[Norman Triplett]]'s 1898 experiment on the phenomenon of [[social facilitation]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Triplett|first=Norman|author-link=Norman Triplett|year=1898|title=The dynamogenic factors in pacemaking and competition|journal=[[American Journal of Psychology]]|volume=9|pages=507–533|doi=10.2307/1412188|issue=4|jstor=1412188|s2cid=54217799}}</ref> These psychological experiments later went on to form the foundation of much of 20th century social psychological findings.
===20th century ===
According to [[Wolfgang Stroebe]], modern social psychology began in 1924 with the publication of a classic textbook by [[Floyd Henry Allport|Floyd Allport]], which defined the field as the experimental study of social behavior.<ref>Stroebe, W. (2012). The truth about Triplett (1898), but nobody seems to care. ''Perspectives on Psychological Science'', ''7'', 54-57.</ref>
An early, influential research program in social psychology was established by [[Kurt Lewin]] and his students.{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}} During [[World War II]], social psychologists were mostly concerned with studies of [[persuasion]] and [[propaganda]] for the U.S. military (see also [[Psychological warfare#World War II|psychological warfare]]). Following the war, researchers became interested in a variety of social problems, including issues of [[gender]] and [[Racism|racial prejudice]].{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}}
During the years immediately following [[World War II]], there were frequent collaborations between psychologists and sociologists. The two disciplines, however, have become increasingly specialized and isolated from each other in recent years, with sociologists generally focusing on high-level, large-scale examinations of society, and psychologists generally focusing on more small-scale studies of individual human behaviors.<ref name=":4">{{cite journal |last=Sewell |first=W. H |year=1989 |title=Some reflections on the golden age of interdisciplinary social psychology |journal=Annual Review of Sociology |volume=15 |pages=1–17 |doi=10.1146/annurev.so.15.080189.000245 |s2cid=143901573|doi-access=free }}</ref>
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