Behavioural sciences

Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behavior. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both conscious and unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feelings, and motives. Psychology is an academic discipline of broad scope, crossing the boundaries between the natural and social sciences. Biological psychologists seek an understanding of the emergent properties of brains, linking the discipline to neuroscience. As social scientists, psychologists aim to understand the behavior of individuals and groups.

Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity that crosses biology and sociology, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans. Social anthropology studies patterns of behaviour, while cultural anthropology studies cultural meaning, including norms and values. The term sociocultural anthropology is commonly used today. Linguistic anthropology studies how language influences social life. Biological (or physical) anthropology studies the biology and evolution of humans and their close primate relativ

Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of deleterious mental conditions. These include matters related to cognition, perceptions, mood, emotion, and behavior.

a branch of psychology that combines concepts from psychology and sociology and that focuses on social influence on human behavior

thumb|350x350px|Three women in the pillory, China, 1875 Criminology (from Latin , 'accusation', and Ancient Greek , -logia, from λόγος logos, 'word, reason') is the interdisciplinary study of crime and deviant behaviour. Criminology is a multidisciplinary field in both the behavioural and social sciences, which draws primarily upon the research of sociologists, political scientists, economists, legal sociologists, psychologists, philosophers, psychiatrists, social workers, biologists, social anthropologists, scholars of law and jurisprudence, as well as the processes that define administration

academic discipline and profession

subdiscipline of psychology

scientific study of changes that occur in human beings over the course of their lives

maladaptive patterns of behavior

integration of science and clinical knowledge for the purpose of relieving psychologically based dysfunction

personality disorder that involves a pervasive pattern of disregard for other people

branch of psychology focused on personality

exploration of the cognitive processes within organisms and the behavioral interactions between organisms in the natural world

branch of psychology that studies unusual patterns of behavior, emotion, and thought, which could possibly be understood as a mental disorder

discipline of psychology dedicated to the study of non-human animal behavior

branch of psychology

theory in behavioral science, politics, and behavioral economics

the study of psychological and behavioral processes in health, illness, and healthcare

branch of psychology

state of being "normal", as opposed to being deviant, eccentric or unusual. Behavior can be normal for an individual (intrapersonal normality) when it is consistent with the most common behaviour for that person

study of human organizations

thumb|right|260px|Freud's soul model, referring to his rider-horse parable: the human head symbolises the ego, the animal the id. Similarly, the dynamics of the libido (drive energy) branches out from the id into two main areas: the mental urge to know and the bodily urge to act. Both are bundled into action by the ego with the aim of satisfying the id's basic needs. This includes perception and judgement of the external reality and leads to experiences that the superego internalises via neuronal imprinting. Moral education gives the superego its function as our 'conscience'; generally speakin

genetic characteristic which influences the possible phenotypic development of an individual organism within a species or population

the notion that a mind is composed of innate neural structures or mental modules which have distinct, established, and evolutionarily developed functions

location, size, or scale of a research target

Health and Safety psychology

theoretical and empirical approach in the social sciences that is considered a sub-field of organizational studies

communication model

field in which animals are studied in a variety of cross-disciplinary ways

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thumb|right|Example of associations between graphemes and colors that are described more accurately as ideasthesia than as synesthesia Ideasthesia (alternative spelling ideaesthesia) is a neuropsychological phenomenon in which activations of concepts (inducers) evoke perception-like sensory experiences (concurrents). The name comes from the Ancient Greek () and (), meaning 'sensing concepts' or 'sensing ideas'. The notion was introduced by neuroscientist Danko Nikolić, but can be seen in examples in the Ethics of Spinoza (especially in the third part of the Ethics), as an alternative explanati

factors associated with unlawful behavior

class of mental disorder

area of sociology focused on social actions

psychological mechanisms against disease

journalistic approach emphasising solutions, context and societal possibilities

study of human behavior and cultural diversity

research method

A method of examining decision making in human through influence by external forces

branch of sociology