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Social Psychology in Search of a Paradigm

Queens College, City University of New York

This address discusses the nature of Kuhnian paradigms in science, and offers four imperatives tnat social psychology must meet if it is to become a mature science: (1) Person parameters must be taken into account: these interact with treatment conditions or dependent variables and thus make trivial propositions about people-in-general. (2) People are at times active agents who play some part in directing their own behaviors; this sequential process must be studied. (3) A taxonomy ot situations--a complex theory of interactions among people in various settings--must be developed; otherwise, it is impossible to generalize from laboratory situations. (4) An adequate systematic treatment must also allow for behaviors that are not self-directed or even comprehended by the actors them selves.

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