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COMMENTARY: "The Wisdom of Social Psychology: Five Commonalities and One Concern"

In our invitation to this special issue, we asked the contributors to discuss some social psychology findings that could possibly help people as individuals or as groups live optimal lives. Clearly, the contributors were able to do this. Each delivered an interesting, coherent discussion of some wisdom growing out of social psychology. There was even a fair amount of agreement about which findings constituted wisdom. Unfortunately, there was another point with which a number of contributors agreed: Although social psychology has had little trouble producing wisdom, it could do a better job of disseminating that wisdom. In this article, we address that concern. We begin by synthesizing into five general categories the various findings discussed by the contributors. Then we examine some reasons why these categories of knowledge have not become a part of folk knowledge the way findings from other areas of psychology have. Finally, we offer some suggestions as to what our field might do to become more successful in disseminating its wisdom.