psychology

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UK /saɪˈkɒl.ə.d͡ʒɪ/ US /saɪˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/

noun 4

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(noun.) study of the mind/the way people behave

PSYCHOLOGY + NOUN

clinical, professional | academic, experimental | applied | cognitive, developmental, educational, social | child

(noun.) type of mind that a person/group has

ADJ

individual, own

Each person's individual psychology influences how they react to stressful situations at work.

crowd, group

During the protest, the police officers understood group psychology and remained calm.

human

Definitions

noun

The study of the human mind.

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology .

The study of human or animal behavior.

The study of the soul.

Alcinous in Didascalius chapter 23 uses the three physical locations of the human soul from Timaeus 69c–72c […] to lead into a dedicated discussion of psychology.

The mental, emotional, and behavioral characteristics pertaining to a specified person, group, or activity.

For generations, historians have conjectured everything from a warped psychology to a deformed body as accounting for Elizabeth's preferred spinsterhood...

In the United States, the psychology of a laborer, a farmer, a businessman does not differ in any important respect.

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Idleness is the beginning of all psychology .

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Alcinous in Didascalius chapter 23 uses the three physical locations of the human soul from Timaeus 69c–72c […] to lead into a dedicated discussion of psychology.

Wiktionary

For generations, historians have conjectured everything from a warped psychology to a deformed body as accounting for Elizabeth's preferred spinsterhood...

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This book deals with psychology.

Tatoeba · #56912

In the early part of my study, I allude to work that had already been done on the psychology of crowd-control.

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The more I studied psychology, the more interesting I found it.

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