Wikipedia:Research resources/Social psychology

There are only a handful of classic books in social psychology, which makes a definitive list relatively easy to create, and also highly useful to interested scholars and laypersons. Any list of classics is sure to be subjective. The list compiled here includes works that have been cited in many texts and papers. Several histories of social psychology are also taken into account. The primary reference text is Currents of Thought in American Social Psychology by Collier, Minton, and Reynolds (1991). The order is alphabetical by year of publication:

The List
1908: 1924: 1935: 1936: 1954: 1957: 1958: 1959: 1972: 1984: 1989:
 * Edward A. Ross, Social Psychology: An Outline and Source Book
 * W. McDougall, Introduction to Social Psychology
 * Floyd Allport, Social Psychology.
 * Kurt Lewin, A Dynamic Theory of Personality
 * Kurt Lewin, Principles of Topological Psychology
 * Gordon Allport, The Nature of Prejudice
 * Leon Festinger, A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
 * Fritz Heider, The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations
 * Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
 * John Thibaut and Harold Kelley, The Social Psychology of Groups
 * Elliot Aronson, The Social Animal
 * Susan Fiske and Shelley Taylor, Social Cognition
 * Richard E. Nisbett and Lee Ross, The Person in the Situation