Due to considerations of length, I have split this article into two parts. This is part 1; part 2 is here. Social psychologists have developed names for a host of ...

There I was, sitting in a packed movie theatre. I waited two years for this sequel and I’ve got enough popcorn and diet soda to last me a full three hours. Fifteen minutes into the movie, the hero and ...

In plainer language, this means that even when someone has very little choice in how they behave because of external environmental demands (i.e., situational factors controlled their behavior), other ...