Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Your behavior doesn't happen in a vacuum. You live within a society. Your environment and the people in it affect your psychology. That's when social ...

Driven by insights from behavioral economics, marketers have begun to cater to the systematic irrationalities of their consumers. This means understanding how consumers actually behave, as opposed to ...

This post lays out my best hopes for the future of social psychology, the field to which I have devoted my adult life. It is a companion to another post that lays out my worst fears for the same field ...

Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

Why do we obey authority figures, conform to group pressure, or change our opinions based on what others around us say? Social psychology explores such questions by examining the interplay between ...