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Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.

I mean, the acting school I went to, we did have a social experience, but you know, when it's a bunch of actors, it's everyone self-consciously having a social experience rather than just having a social experience.

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

Social reality is so complicated that, once you join one team or the other, you become specialized in detecting certain patterns, but you become blind to other patterns.

Social situations, for me - it's very natural for me to be an observer. That's where I'm most comfortable. I observe things.

I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.

I never had a problem with social situations. A lot of times, when people are in school, they can have a little hesitancy because people are mean sometimes. I never had that problem because I never had that experience. So, I had a pretty easy transition.