The history of North American social psychology is far more complex and intriguing than could be recounted in any chronicle of the field's experimental successes and notable theories. Social psychology emerged in response to material social problems, economic conditions, and changing conceptions of the self in society, and its disciplinary origins are likewise multiple. Most important, social psychology took up new and perplexing questions of the individual and its varied renderings of social selves as dynamically connected with social events supports Gordon Allport's claim that social psychology is not only an “ancient discipline” but an “ultramodern” one. Appreciating the complex engagements of social psychological research requires consideration of its ties to progressive politics, the projects of related social scientific disciplines, American crises (especially war), and shifting conceptions of the reflexive entanglements in the staging of experiments and crafting of theories.
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