ABSTRACT
This chapter considers what social psychology as a whole would gain by seeking this additional kind of validity and how it might do so. Social psychology further apart from public consciousness than in its understanding of how things become real for people. Social psychology has a lot to learn about what makes things real for people, certainly before it can communicate effectively on this topic to the public. So far social psychology has tended to seek inferential validity at the expense of phenomenological validity. Games should be a natural concern for social psychology as science, as history, and as a vehicle for personal growth. Social psychology has seen the growth of interest in the scientific study of environmental systems. A larger role for games would bring closer to a social psychology of human concerns. The games that would be most appropriate for social psychology would be different from the kinds of games available.
