ABSTRACT
Think back to someone you have spoken to in the last 24 hours. In what ways was your behaviour influenced by that person, and how might you have influenced them? Did you find them attractive or cool? If so, why? Did they belong to a group that you have positive or negative feelings about? If so, did you show your feelings? If not, why not, and how did you conceal your reactions to them? You begin to see the complexity of social psychology, but also its relevance to all of us. Every time we interact with someone else we are potentially involved in a huge number of social processes. When most people say they are interested in psychology it is really social psychology-the study of human interaction-that they mean.
