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.

42.10 - Personality Psychology

This subseries comprises instructional program class 42.1001.

42.1001 - Personality Psychology

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the unique organization of fairly permanent characteristics that set the individual apart from other individuals and, at the same time, determine how others respond to that individual. These programs include courses in Freudian, Skinnerian, Rogerian, and Ellisonian psychology; neo-Freudian psychology; psychological systems, neurophysiology, and psychopharmacology.

• Example Program Names:

  • Personality psychology

• Exclusion

  • Clinical psychology(42.0201)
  • Comparative psychology(42.0501)
  • Psychosociology(42.1601)