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Social problems are everywhere around us. Listen to a news channel, have a look at social media or open up a newspaper, and suddenly you are confronted with a rich variety of social issues, many of which have a social psychological dimension. Regardless of whether it concerns, for example, the problem of climate change, obesity, international conflicts, the flow of refugees, prejudice and aggression towards ethnic minorities, a lack of diversity in the police force, the lack of women in the boards of large companies, privacy concerns with regard to the use of big data or school drop-out, social psychological factors play a role in all of these issues. That is, based on the definition of social psychology we presented in Chapter 1, many social problems are affected by how people relate to each other, and how their thoughts, feelings and behaviours with respect to many issues are influenced by the actual, imagined or …