Occupation or Discipline
social psychology Audio
so·cial psy·chol·o·gy
Subclass of:
Psychology
Definitions related to psychology, social:
  • (social psychology) Study of the behavior and mental processes of individuals in groups, and the interactions of groups.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • (social psychology) The branch of psychology that studies persons and their relationships with others and with groups and with society as a whole.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • The branch of psychology concerned with the effects of group membership upon the behavior, attitudes, and beliefs of an individual.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • Social psychology, the scientific study of the behaviour of individuals in their social and cultural setting. Although the term may be taken to include the social activity of laboratory animals or those in the wild, the emphasis here is on human social behaviour. Once a relatively speculative...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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