A history of social psychology : from the eighteenth-century enlightenment to the Second World War / Gustav Jahoda.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

ix, 242 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. The eighteenth century: enlightenment precursors. France: a short-lived dawn of empirical social science -- Britain: interpersonal relations and cultural differences. Part II. The nineteenth century: the gestation of social psychology in Europe. Germany: Herbart's and his followers' societal psychology -- France and Belgium: adventurous blueprints for a new social science -- Britain: logic, evolution, and the social in mind -- France: crowd, public, and collective mentalities -- Germany: in the shadow of Wundt -- America: Darwinian social psychology crosses the Atlantic. Part III. The twentieth century: towards maturity in America. Was 1908 a crucial date? -- Social psychology becomes empirical: groups (social facilitation) and attitudes -- The wider panorama of social psychology in the mid-1930s -- Highlights of the inter-war years.