Our department is committed to fostering critical thinking and scientific reasoning skills in an inclusive and collaborative environment that encourages creative exploration and discovery. Students learn in the classroom and through hands-on research experiences, and they are tasked with sharing their knowledge with others at the University and beyond. Students have the option to declare a Psychology degree (B.A. or B.S. tracks) or a Neuroscience degree (B.S.).
(Affective) learning and memory
Cognitive and socioemotional development (from infancy through old age)
Virtue and morality
Our faculty study each of these core problems from multiple perspectives: from animal models and computational models, to systems and cognitive neuroscience, to behavioral and psychophysiological measurements from individuals or groups.
Affective disorders, such as anxiety and depression Stigma and stereotyping
Developmental disorders
Teaching and education
Dementia
Ethics and law
Undergraduates are integrated into our department through their coursework, their participation in independent research and honors theses, their inclusion in departmental colloquia and workshops, and the Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference. They become critical thinkers as they reflect on topics that are at the core of the human experience: How we learn through our experiences; how brain cells give rise to thought; how context influences everything from what we see to how we behave toward others; which aspects of human behavior are easily controlled and which proceed without conscious awareness.
Assistant Professor
Associate Professor
Behavioral Scientist/Epidemiologist
Scientific Project Manager
Senior Research Associate
Project Director
Lecturer
Postdoc
Assistant Professor
Associate Professor of Psychology Liane Young is a recipient of the 2017 Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformational Early Career Contributions, given by the Association for Psychological Science. The award recognizes the best of new and cutting-edge ideas coming from the most creative and promising investigators.
