psychology

心理学

人の考え方、感情、行動を研究する学問。

やさしい英語で： The study of how people think, feel, and behave.

• She studies psychology.
• I took a psychology course last year.
• Research in psychology helps us understand how children learn.

よく使う表現： study psychology, psychology degree, clinical psychology, sports psychology

心理、心理状態

人や集団に特有の考え方、感じ方、行動の仕方。

やさしい英語で： The ways a person or group thinks, feels, and behaves.

• She understands the psychology of buyers.
• Fear plays a large part in crowd psychology.
• The novel explores the psychology of a lonely teenager.

使い方： the psychology of someone/something (The book explores the psychology of crowds.)

類義語： mindset, mentality

よく使う表現： consumer psychology, crowd psychology, psychology of someone