SCIENTIFIC INSIGHT INTO "GROUP" FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY : COLLABORATION WITH PHYSIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY(<Special Issue>Variations in Physiological Functions)

Abstract

This study adopts a social psychology perspective to explain the scientific approach to "group." Social psychology is a research area examining human behavioral and psychological processes in society based on empirical and scientific approaches. The first section introduces the classical group experiment of social psychology, i.e., conformity, social loafing, and bystander effect. The next section discusses the combined view of physiological anthropology and social psychology from social neuroscience method and evolutionary psychology perspective.