psychology

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Related topics: Psychology, psychiatry

psy·chol·o·gy /saɪˈkɒlədʒi $ -ˈkɑː-/ W3 AWL noun (plural psychologies)

1 [uncountableU]MP the study of the mind and how it influences people’s behaviour 心理学

educational/social etc psychology

experts in the field of developmental psychology

发展心理学领域的专家

2 [uncountableU] the mental processes involved in believing in something or doing a certain activity 〔相信某事或做某事的〕心理，心理过程

psychology of

research into the psychology of racism

对种族歧视心理的研究

3 [countableC, uncountableU]MP what someone thinks or believes, and how this affects what they do 心理，思想，观念〔及其如何影响人的行为〕

the psychology of three-year-olds

三岁孩子的思想

mob psychology

暴民的心理

You have to use psychology to get people to stop smoking.

让人戒烟必须利用烟民的心理。

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psychology• a psychology class• What had I really learned from studying history and psychology and philosophy and literature?• For a number of years, he taught religion and psychology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.• clinical psychology• Developmental psychology is probably the liveliest speciality just now.• But feminist psychology retains conventional psychology's resistance to making sexuality a topic of frequent or serious study.• Unlike the versions of feminist psychology examined before, associative feminist psychologies are rarely deliberately or self-consciously adopted.• a terrorist's psychology• Sociology was to study social systems, psychology studied personality systems, and anthropology was to concentrate on cultural systems.

educational/social etc psychology• Social Psychology was built on studies of voter behavior, social power, and attitude change.• In the United States, what we now recognise as social psychology has always been a rich vein of thought.• Thus his social psychology assumes the traditional bourgeois family structure as a norm.• A good place to begin is with the encounter of educational psychology and schooling.• What sort of social science should social psychology be?• Furthermore, the results will be relevant to educational psychology, socialization process, child rearing and moral development.

psychology of• Eckman's research has focused on the psychology of lying.• the psychology of video games

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