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This chapter is organized around six historical periods, catalogued imprecisely according to major research trends that defined the era and distinguished it from preceding periods. These developments reflect far more research and many more contributors than can be mentioned in a brief chapter such as this. For that reason, I emphasize contributions that played pivotal roles in the evolution of social-psychological research and theory. Readers interested in more detailed accounts will find Allport (1954), Goethals (2003), Jahoda (2007), Jones (1985), and Ross, Ward, and Lepper (2010) particularly informative. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)