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More than 35 years ago Muzafer Sherif held a conference entitled “Social Psychology at the Crossroads” (Rohrer & Sherif, 1951). The crossroad to which he referred was the intersection between sociological social psychology (SSP) and psychological social psychology (PSP). The metaphor of an overpass might have been more appropriate, since the two disciplines seldom actually met. Recognizing that the two social psychologies had not achieved a successful synthesis, Sherif (1951) wrote:
Social psychology… is still groping its way at the crossroads. Groping at the crossroads may be taken as a sign of vitality. A few decades ago, conditions were not even ripe for serious groping (p. 1).
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Stephan, C.W., Stephan, W.G. (1991). Social Psychology at the Crossroads. In: Stephan, C.W., Stephan, W.G., Pettigrew, T.F. (eds) The Future of Social Psychology. Recent Research in Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3120-2_3
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