SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does social psychology mean? 

• SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY (noun)
  The noun SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY has 1 sense:

1. the branch of psychology that studies persons and their relationships with others and with groups and with society as a whole

  Familiarity information: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY (noun)

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Meaning:

The branch of psychology that studies persons and their relationships with others and with groups and with society as a whole

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("social psychology" is a kind of...):

psychological science; psychology (the science of mental life)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "social psychology"):

psychodynamics (the branch of social psychology that deals with the processes and emotions that determine psychology and motivation)