Is basic research within Adjunct Areas of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research described in the NIH definition considered b-BSSR?
No. What defines adjunct areas to behavioral and social research is that they do not have a major and explicit focus on the understanding of behavioral and social processes. So research that only utilizes behavioral and social factors as critical outcome variables and/or only has implications for understanding behavioral or social processes, without an explicit focus on understanding those processes, cannot be categorized as b-BSSR.
