Table 4.

Theories addressing social change in subfields of psychology.

Theory	Perspective of social change	Key authors
Cultural and evolutionary psychology	Focuses on how social change and human biology are linked and aims to identify how social change influences human genetics and the way humans adapt to these changes.	Feldman and Laland, 1996; Laland et al., 2000
Developmental psychology	Research in this field has demonstrated that social change has the potential to impact developmental stages for children and adolescents as well as their identities and well-being.	Pinquart and Silbereisen, 2004; Greenfield, 2009, 2016
Industrial/organizational psychology	Focuses on organizational change as a form of social change. Three main themes emerge from this field: how to successfully implement organizational change, how to limit the negative impact of organizational change and understand the psychological processes of people who are confronting organizational change.	Kanter, 1991; Burke and Litwin, 1992; Sanzgiri and Gottlieb, 1992; Meyer and Allen, 1997; Reichers et al., 1997