George Herbert Mead Quotes

I've always been interested in social psychology and why certain groups of people do things while others don't.

Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world.

You learn more about a person from the people around that person than you do from the person themselves. We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual.

Society becomes how we behave.

Egocentrism appears to us as a form of behavior intermediate between purely individual and socialized behavior.

I assume that the proper study of interaction is not the individual and his psychology, but rather the syntactical relations among the acts of different persons mutually present to another.

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

It's not rocket science. It's social science.

My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.'

I love observing people.

I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.

Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.'

I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.

Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

When people are free to do as we please, they usually imitate each other.

I was obsessed with learning about social behaviors. I remember explaining to my mom that kids on my soccer team were fighting because of dyads and triads.

People influence each other, so one screening will be filled with laughs while another is dead silent.

People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.

no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone.

I'm a big fan of human dynamics. Nothing fascinates me more than really interesting people and human dynamics.

I work alone. Humans are incredible, because when you come alone, they will receive you, they accept you, they protect you, they give you all things that you need, and they teach you all things you must know. When you come with two persons or three persons, you have a group in front of them. They don't discuss with the new persons what is important to them.

A being whose activities are associated with others has a social environment. What he does and what he can do depend upon the expectations, demands, approvals, and condemnations of others.

Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.