Description
The department houses a group of diverse and innovative psychologists who conduct cutting edge research is on the nature of the human mind. We study human motivation, emotion, cognition, and social interactions, how these all develop and change over time, the psychological and physiological (neurological, genetic, and biological) bases of them, how people differ in them, how they go awry and what supports their optimal functioning. Our department houses 24 in-house laboratories and a number of field labs run by our faculty in other locations. Take a look at our faculty pages to see the many, diverse areas of interest that we cover and read about our discovered in each area.