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• Psychology — (from Greek gr. ψῡχή, psȳkhē , breath, life, soul ; and gr. λογία, logia ) is an academic and applied discipline involving the scientific study of mental processes and behavior. Psychologists study such phenomena as perception, cognition, emotion …   Wikipedia

• Psychology (The separation of) from philosophy — The separation of psychology from philosophy Studies in the sciences of mind 1815–1879 Edward S.Reed THE IMPOSSIBLE SCIENCE Traditional metaphysics The consensus of European opinion during and immediately after the Napoleonic era was that… …   History of philosophy

• Psychology of torture — The psychological effects associated with torture, or the threat of torture, can be severe. The psychological suffering coupled with physical pain affects the torture subject and serves the torturer s (conscious) interests. The torturer can also… …   Wikipedia

• psychology — /saɪˈkɒlədʒi / (say suy koluhjee) noun (plural psychologies) 1. the systematic study of the mind, or of mental states and processes; the study of human nature. 2. the body of knowledge relating to this study. 3. the systematic study of human and… …  

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• Homosexuality and psychology — Psychology was one of the first disciplines to study homosexuality as a discrete phenomenon. In the late 19th and throughout most of the 20th centuries, pathological models of homosexuality were standard. On December 15, 1973, the American… …   Wikipedia

• Environmental psychology — is an interdisciplinary field focused on the interplay between humans and their surroundings. The field defines the term environment very broadly including all that is natural on the planet as well as social settings, built environments, learning …   Wikipedia

• Music psychology — Music psychology, or the psychology of music, may be regarded as a branch of psychology or a branch of musicology. It aims to explain and understand musical behavior and musical experience. Modern music psychology is mainly empirical: music… …   Wikipedia

• Consulting psychology — is a special area of psychology, addressing the applications of psychology to such areas as assessment and interventions at the individual, group, and organizational levels. The Handbook of Organizational Consulting Psychology[1] provides an… …   Wikipedia

• Affect (psychology) — Affective redirects here. For other uses, see Affect (disambiguation). Affect refers to the experience of feeling or emotion.[1] Affect is a key part of the process of an organism s interaction with stimuli. The word also refers sometimes to… …   Wikipedia