Etymology

Noun

1. The study of the human mind.
2. The study of human behavior.
3. The study of animal behavior.
4. The mental characteristics of a particular individual.

   1970: Mary M. Luke, A Crown for Elizabeth, page 8:

   • "For generations, historians have conjectured everything from a warped psychology to a deformed body as accounting for Elizabeth's preferred spinsterhood..."

   1969: Victor Alba, The Latin Americans, page 42:

   • "In the United States, the psychology of a laborer, a farmer, a businessman does not differ in any important respect."

Related terms

• psychologist
• psychiatry
• psychiatrist
• parapsychology
• psychotherapy
• psyche
• psyched up