The necessity of observing real life situations: Palestinian-Israeli violence as a laboratory for learning about social behaviour
The necessity of observing real life situations: Palestinian-Israeli violence as a laboratory for learning about social behaviour
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DOI：
10.1002/ejsp.224
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发表时间：
2004-11-01
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Bar-Tal, D
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作者：
Bar-Tal, D
社会心理学出现于上世纪初，是一门独特的学科，专注于研究个人和集体的社会行为。然而，随着时间的推移，社会心理学相对忽视了等式中的“社会”部分，而主要关注个人行为。社会心理学研究的主要部分是在实验室的人工环境中进行的。研究现实生活中的社会行为至关重要，这不仅是为了让社会心理学回归其根源，也是为了确保我们的贡献既具有丰富的理论价值，又具有社会价值。如果我们想加深对个人和集体行为方式的理解，对现实生活情况的观察至关重要。为了说明背景丰富的社会心理学的重要性和自然观察的有用性，对最近以色列人和巴勒斯坦人之间的暴力对抗进行了描述和分析，重点关注以色列犹太人的社会行为。总之，社会心理学应该努力在自然方法和实验方法、个人重点和情境重点之间以及微观和宏观视角之间寻求平衡。版权所有 (C) 2004 John Wiley Sons, Ltd.
Social psychology emerged in the early part of the last century as a distinct discipline that focused on the study of social behaviour of individuals and collectives. Over time, however, social psychology has relatively ignored the 'social'part of the equation and has become mainly concerned with individual behaviour. The major part of social psychological research was carried out in the artificial context of the experimental laboratory. Studying social behaviour in real life contexts is essential, not only to return social psychology to its roots, but also to ensure that our contributions are both theoretically rich and socially valuable. Observation of real life situations is essential if we want to advance our understanding of how individuals and collectives behave. To illustrate the importance of a contextually rich social psychology and the usefulness of natural observations, the recent violent confrontation between the Israelis and the Palestinians is described and analysed, focusing on social behaviours of Israeli Jews. In conclusion, it is argued that social psychology should strive towards equilibrium between natural and experimental approaches, between personal and contextual emphases and between micro and macro perspectives. Copyright (C) 2004 John Wiley Sons, Ltd.