The implications of social influence research for a conceptual framework for psychological social psychology.

The conceptual framework of psychological social psychology is scientific (in the image of the natural sciences) and includes, but is not limited to, determinism, behaviorism, and individualism. Focusing on research on social influence, this paper demonstrates problems with, and changes occurring in, that conceptual framework while setting the research in its historical context. Those problems, it is argued, are fundamental to, and not resolvable within, the conceptual framework of the subdiscipline. A reformulation of the conceptual framework of psychological social psychology is recommended. (French abstract) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)