http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/02/18/what-do-personality-psychology-and-social-psychology-actually-have-in-common/ ...or you get no soup for one year! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:37:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/02/18/what-do-personality-psychology-and-social-psychology-actually-have-in-common/comment-page-1/#comment-2284 Stormy Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:50:52 +0000 http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/?p=333#comment-2284 Personality psychology and social psychology share the (focus on the) concept of "self" - the former studies the impact of the self on cognition/behaviour, the latter, other selves on cognition/behaviour, although increasingly the distinction is seen as arbitrary; social psychology's typical definition of "how cognition/behaviour is influenced by the actual, implied, or imagined presence of others" actually becomes personality psychology merely by considering that one conscious self-image is often intuitively considered as "other" (as in cognitive dissonance, whereby ones actions contradict ones self-image). Personality psychology and social psychology share the (focus on the) concept of “self” – the former studies the impact of the self on cognition/behaviour, the latter, other selves on cognition/behaviour, although increasingly the distinction is seen as arbitrary; social psychology’s typical definition of “how cognition/behaviour is influenced by the actual, implied, or imagined presence of others” actually becomes personality psychology merely by considering that one conscious self-image is often intuitively considered as “other” (as in cognitive dissonance, whereby ones actions contradict ones self-image).

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