# Social Psychology as the Study of Collective Habit in Human Nature and Conduct

> Theme guide for Human Nature and Conduct by John Dewey.

Dewey contends that social psychology should focus on how customs and institutions shape individual minds, not on how individual minds form society, reversing traditional psychological assumptions.

## Where it surfaces

- [Habit and Social Psychology](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/human_nature_and_conduct_se/chapters/vi-habit-and-social-psychology): Dewey argues that habit is inherently social, formed through adjustment to environing conditions, especially the activities of others, and that social psychology must abandon the premise of separate, independent minds.

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