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.

42.05 - Comparative Psychology

This subseries comprises instructional program class 42.0501.

42.0501 - Comparative Psychology

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the behaviour of members of particular species or groups and the relationship of the behaviours of the species or group to their evolutionary origins. These programs include courses in differential psychology, experimental and physiological psychology, psychopharmacology, psychology of individual differences, reinforcement theory, and neurophysiology.

• Example Program Names:

  • Comparative psychology

• Exclusion

  • Behavioural sciences(30.1701)
  • Personality psychology(42.1001)
  • Physiological psychology(42.1101)
  • Psychopharmacology(42.2401)