Social Psychology Network Website

Social Psychology Network Website

                          Rachel Patrick

UNV -530

December 7, 2016

Professor Carla Homburg

Social Psychology Network

In researching the Social Psychology Network website, what I discovered is a wealth of information on psychology and psychologist background and specialties. In searching for social psychologists, I found there were more than 670 who have very similar if not colleagues of the same theoretical perspectives. I also discovered Social Psychology Network has various forums of social media including Facebook where guest can interact, search for information, and ask questions. The forums are a great communication network of joining in communities. When clicking on the forums I found it easy to navigate through the various tabs, join the network and learn not only about social psychologist here in United States, but, found there were also international social psychologist I can learn from about their cultural environment and viewpoints.

Social Psychologist

 The five social psychologists I researched had similar psychological theoretical perspectives, however, they also each had a primary focus in Evolutionary, Social Cognition, and Social/Behavioral Learning Perspectives.

Professor Henry Wallace of Trinity University located in San Antonio, Texas and hah has published 11 different articles regarding his work in social Psychology. His focuses on an individual’s emotions and moods, making decisions and judgments, setting goals, the well-being of life satisfaction, motivating, personal perceptions, and self-identification (Social Psychology Network, 2016).  What attracted me to his profile was the focus of his research on an individual’s performance is stressed and the consequences of their narcissism. In my own research, I had not come across Professor Wallace’s focus on consequences of narcissism, however, I can relate to it because every day in our lives we work with individuals who have attitudes of narcissism.

Dr. Brooke Feeney of Carnegie Mellon University located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and works in the Psychology Department on campus. Her theoretical perspectives are understanding relationships in social support and caregiving processes in adulthood and across the lifespan (Social Psychology Network, 2016). Her other primary interest includes an individual’s close relationships, helping and prosocial behavior, an individual’s personality differences, how an individual emotions and moods are affected, and the processes of interpersonal relationships. She has published over seven articles on these various interests and taught a class discussing these theoretical perspectives. I like the she provides career guidance and mentors college students who need the added support. The other reason I was attracted to her profile is personal for me because I am the main caregiver for my Mom and can totally relate to Dr. Feeney’s focuses.

Dr. Cheryl Kaiser of the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington and is the employed in the Psychology Department as a director of her own laboratory. Her research is regarding the relationships that society normally are prejudices against. Her research includes an individual’s examining the perception of looking at personal and social relationships relating to intergroup and prejudice. Having published more than 15 publications about her theoretic perspectives regarding relationships which not only include the above but also social cognition, the law and public policies when it comes to intergroup relations, understanding self and identifying with it, casual attributions, and stereotyping (Social Psychology Network, 2016). Her course she has taught to students are about society’s discrimination, social stigma, and stereotyping. I found her profile interesting to me only because I work in such a diverse environment that I can relate to her theoretic perspectives.

Profess Valerie Stone from the University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia and teaching in the Psychology Department has a focus on social neuroscience that includes theoretical perspectives of human evolution, interpersonal attachment, and social cognition. Her other interest overlap with the previous social psychologist I chose such as an individual’s emotions and moods, personal perceptions, nonverbal behavior, evolution and genetics, and applied social psychology (Social Psychology Network, 2016). Her focus from the scientific perspective is human evolution and studying the social brain of an individual’s intelligence, the emotions they feel and are they nature or nurture from genetics or environment. Her published articles are over 50 publications of how genetics and environment come into play in an individual’s social relationships.