SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE
a non-profit organisation of scientists and physicians studying the brain and nervous system.
SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH
British society founded in 1882 to promote the scientific investigation of paranormal phenomena.
SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT (SRCD)
A non-profit and multi-disciplinary professional association founded in 1933 to research human development. SRCD basically publishes the journal Child Development.
SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGISTS
an organisation aiming to advance psychology by arranging conferences on experimental psychology.
SOCIOCENTER
Sociometry. the person who is the centre of a group or the most popular or prominent member.
SOCIOCOGNITIVE BIAS
a bias in judgement that evaluators may be susceptible to. It comes from a shortcoming cognitive processing.
SOCIOCULTURAL FACTORS
These are the environmental conditions that play a part in adaptive and healthy behaviour and wellbeing or just the opposite.…
SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS (SES)
The position of a person or group on the socioeconomic scale that is determined by a combination of economic and…
SOCIOFUGAL
used to describe an environmental condition where rows of seats all face to the front. See the process of sociofugal.…
SOCIOGENIC
the process of characterising an idea or a mental process based on influences from sociocultural ideas.
SOCIOGENIC HYPOTHESIS
the ideal that social conditions are the major cause of mental and behavioural disorders.
SOCIOLINGUISTICS
the study of the relationship between a society and language used that is related to gender, class and ethnicity. One…
SOCIOLOGICAL MEASURE
a measure of those aspects of society that affect the development and maintenance of normal behaviours or mental health problems.…
SOCIOMETRIC DISTANCE
the degree of acceptance between people or groups that is measured by a social distance scale.
SOCIOMETRIC TEST
Sociometric test is a self-report on interpersonal relationships in a group that is used to analyse as well as to…
SOCIONOMICS
the study of influences on a group that are not social but are from the environment and external sources. This…