How is a psychologist a social scientist?
Psychology has been around as an academic and research science for over 100 years. Psychology is a social science, and psychologists have contributed a large body of research to our knowledge about human behavior, human development, psychological problems, the measurement and understanding of personality characteristics, and other important areas of knowledge about how people think, feel and behave. For the purposes of this presentation, we will focus more on psychologists as health care providers, rather than as social scientists. Many research psychologists do not provide direct clinical services.
