Portal:Psychology

Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both conscious and unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feelings, and motives.

Psychology is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries between the natural and social sciences.

Biological psychologists seek an understanding of the emergent properties of brains, linking the discipline to neuroscience.

Psychologists are involved in research on perception, cognition, attention, emotion, intelligence, subjective experiences, motivation, brain functioning, and personality.

Research psychologists employ empirical methods to infer causal and correlational relationships between psychosocial variables.

A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Boring as the 93rd most cited psychologist of the 20th century, tied with John Dewey, Amos Tversky, and Wilhelm Wundt.