Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2021 Version 1.0

• 42. - Psychology
• 42.27 - Research and experimental psychology

42.2707 - Social psychology

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the scientific study of individual behaviour in group contexts, group behaviour, and associated phenomena. These programs include courses in social learning theory, group theory and dynamics, sex roles, social cognition and inference, attribution theory, attitude formation, criminal behaviour and other social pathologies, altruistic behaviour, social development, and social ecology.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • psychosociology
  • social psychology

  All examples

• Exclusion(s)

  • applied social psychology(42.2813)
  • community psychology(42.2802)
  • military psychology and leadership(28.0801)
  • personality psychology(42.2705)
  • sociology(45.1101)