ProgramCIP 42.2707

Social Psychology

A program that focuses on the scientific study of individual behavior in group contexts, group behavior, and associated phenomena. Includes instruction in social learning theory, group theory and dynamics, sex roles, social cognition and inference, attribution theory, attitude formation, criminal behavior and other social pathologies, altruistic behavior, social development, and social ecology.

Definition from U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (CIP 2020).