ABSTRACT
One of the most significant historical events in the field highlights how other non-scientific approaches are needed to fully understand an individual's experience and supports the argument that such research cannot really be generalized to a common human condition. During the late 1950s, theorists began thinking of psychology as a form of information processing, reflecting advances in early forms of computer science being made at the time. Gordon Willard Allport's ideas on the role of contact in reducing intergroup conflict formed some of the most impactive social psychology work ever undertaken on contact theory. Social psychology as a discipline was drawn into this debate in a stark way in 2011 when the mass falsification of research findings by a prominent psychologist was discovered. Similar to the rest of the psychology discipline, social psychologists now follow comprehensive codes of ethical conduct alongside the Helsinki declaration.
