All Personality and Social Psychology

Groups the branches that study how individual disposition and the presence of other people shape thought, feeling and behavior, the joint subject the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology take as one field: Personality Psychology studies stable individual traits and how they form, Social Psychology studies how the real or imagined presence of others shapes an individual, Group Dynamics studies how people behave and interact within and between groups, and Community Psychology studies individuals in the context of their community and social systems. A branch centered on a cultural identity, a clinical disorder or a biological mechanism rather than personality or social influence belongs elsewhere.