Thus, this aspect can multiply into many sub-genres that focus on one or more aspects of the social world as they contribute to influencing behaviors and innate thought processes. Focusing on the social means looking for more abstract concepts that relate to existence within a social world. Actually trying to predict later success in publication, "Predicting the future success of junior scholars is of great concern to academic hiring committees," (Haslam & Lamb 2009:144). Yet it is based within two correlating variables that can then be compared, "It is therefore reasonable to predict that publication success during graduate school may be associated with publication success later in people's academic careers," (Haslam & Lamb 2009:144). Although the subject is socially constructed, the method of analysis is still quantitatively measured. Even this study shows quantitative measurement use- using mathematical prediction models in analysis of data (Haslam & Lamb 2009). Regression analysis, common in statistics, is used to predict the now measurable abstract notion of success. Common methods include surveys and interviews, which make up the more qualitative aspects of the research. Yet, these are aspects are then transformed into measurable quantities which can then be compared. This represents the compartmentalization of abstract concepts into actual measurable...
It is a multi-faceted and varied approach to describing how and why people think the way they do. Within the flexible approach to understanding this concept, modern research in social psychology has been making great grounds and finding important answers to both individualized and abstract questions. There is a lot to learn about the human mind, and social psychology provides a strong fundamental base to dive into the search.
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