Disciplines
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Behavioral Economics
aims to incorporate scientific insights on human behavior into the economic analysis of individual decision making, strategic interactions, and performance of financial markets.
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Cognitive & Brain Science
includes the study of sensation, perception, learning, memory, language, reasoning, and judgment, as well as the study of brain development, functioning, and neural substrates of behavior.
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Decision Marketing & Management Sciences
are concerned with how individuals and groups make judgments and choices, incorporating a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including economics, management, marketing, psychology, and statistics.
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Organizational Science
is the study of organizational processes, structures, and strategies, including understanding how groups of organization members behave. This research draws on a number of fields, including human resources management, industrial and organizational psychology, organizational behavior, organizational communication, organizational sociology, organizational theory social psychology, and strategic management.
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Political Science
investigates the theory and practice of politics with regard to political systems, behavior, and culture; it draws on theory and methods from numerous disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, economics, and psychology.
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Social Psychology
investigates social behavior and individual behavior in a social context, including such topics as aggression, attitudes, attribution theory, group processes, interpersonal processes, prejudice and discrimination, self concept, social cognition, social influence, and stereotypes.
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Sociology
researchers study social life, social change, and the social roots of and implications for human behavior, with a focus on the structures of groups, organizations, and societies.