Social-behavioral research

Social-behavioral research is a broad field of research that most commonly uses the methods of behavioral and social sciences to study human subjects. This is sometimes contrasted with biomedical research (for instance, for the purposes of making applications to an Institutional Review Board (IRB) for approval of human subjects research.) However, social-behavioral research may overlap with areas of research traditionally consider biomedical; for instance, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has a Social and Behavioral Research Branch, founded in 2004.