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Psychology

The scientific study of the mind and behavior.

Cognitive Psychology

The study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and thinking.

Social Psychology

The scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined or implied presence of others.

Developmental Psychology

The scientific study of how and why human beings change over the course of their life.

The study of society, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture that surrounds everyday life.

Social Theory

Frameworks of empirical evidence used to study and interpret social phenomena.

Criminology

The scientific study of the nature, extent, management, causes, control, consequences, and prevention of criminal behavior.

Demography

The statistical study of populations, especially human beings.

The scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics.

Cultural Anthropology

The branch of anthropology that focuses on the study of cultural variation among humans.

Biological Anthropology

The study of the biological and behavioral aspects of human beings, their extinct hominin ancestors, and related non-human primates.

Linguistic Anthropology

The interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life.