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Table 1 Major areas of study in psychology (27 items)

From: Special series on “The meaning of behavioral medicine in the psychosomatic field” establishment of a core curriculum for behavioral science in Japan: The importance of such a curriculum from the perspective of psychology

principles and history

research methods

learning

cognition

perception

development

education

social (psychology)

emotion

personality

clinical (psychology)

disorder

nervous function

physiology

statistics

measurement and assessment

industry

organization

health

welfare

crime and justice

delinquency

evolution

heredity

environment

culture

behavioral economics