Variant of CIP 2000 - NGS University-level Historical Groupings

2 - Social Sciences, Psychology and Law

26 - Psychology and Cognitive and Behavioural Sciences

42. - Psychology

This series comprises instructional programs that focus on the scientific study of the behaviour of individuals, independently or collectively, and the physical and environmental bases of mental, emotional, and neurological activity.

42.21 - Environmental Psychology

This subseries comprises instructional program class 42.2101.

42.2101 - Environmental Psychology

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the study of behavioural interactions between human beings and the environment in individual and group contexts, and ways to improve them. These programs include courses in contextual theory; statistics; physiological, social, and psychological responses to natural and technological hazards and disease; environmental perception and cognition; loneliness and stress; and psychological aspects of environmental design and planning.

• Example Program Names:

  • Environmental psychology

• Exclusion

  • Environmental science(03.0104)
  • Environmental health engineering(14.1401)
  • Environmental technology(15.0507)
  • Industrial psychology(42.0901)
  • Environmental health(51.2202)