Social psychology was in existence as a field roughly 100 years before Freudian psychoanalysis.

Social psychology primarily relies on the experimental method.

The "ABC triad" in social psychology refers to social psychology's focus on attribution, behavior and culture, respectively

Social psychology has been more influenced by history than by any other social science

According to the textbook, human intuition is typically an excellent guide to understanding human behavior

Social psychologists usually derive their hypotheses from existing theories

Replication is essential to the self-correcting nature of science

Understanding how the human psyche works can help us to understand human behavior

Humans appear to be the only animals that make decisions about what to eat or not eat for ideological reasons

Research indicates that humans and other primates (e.g., chimpanzees) evolved to care more about the future than about immediate costs and benefits

Research suggests that people would prefer to gain money over social acceptance

If you compare your grade to your friends in this class and find out they all did better than you on the last test, you have made a downward social comparison

Suppose that you are a young person, and you are in a room full of people who are all at least twenty or thirty years older than you. Research suggests that you are likely to be especially aware of your age in this situation

Since about the 1970s, people's self-esteem scores have been on the rise