PSYCHOLOGY

[noun] [U] - the scientific study of the way the human mind works and how it influences behaviour, or the influence of a particular person's character on their behaviourShe studied psychology at Harvard.John Lambie is a lecturer in psychology.These arguments do not take into account the psychology of the ordinary soldier, like his close bond with a 'buddy'.The article is persuasive, but it omits that little-understood factor, the golfer's psychology.Compare psychiatry.