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Department of Psychology

Undergraduate Study
The Department of Psychology's Courses & Honors Program offer study in clinical, social, and experimental psychology; personality; development; and behavioral neuroscience. Students may design programs that approach psychology as a social science, a natural science, or a combination of both. See more about
- BA Psychology with option for a combined BA/MA
- Minor Psychology
- Research & Internships
Graduate Study
- MA Psychology
- PhD Clinical Psychology
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PhD Behavior, Cognition, and Neuroscience (BCAN)
- Graduate Certificate: Psychobiology of Healing
Faculty Research Labs & Clinics
- Emotions and Positive Psychology Laboratory
- Clinic for Youth Anxiety & Related Disorders
- Anxiety Disorders Research Laboratory
- Laboratory for Behavioral and Neural Homeostasis
- Family, Work, Community, and Culture Research Group
- Human Neuropsychology Laboratory
- Body Image Research Group
- Stress and Emotion Laboratory
- Clinical Psychology Research Laboratory
- Interpersonal Emotion Laboratory
- Behavioral Pharmacology & Health Promotion Laboratory
- Conditioned Taste Aversion Research
- Psychopharmacology Laboratory
- Human Memory and Cognition Laboratory
- Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory
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Program Evaluation Research Laboratory
Quick Links
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Psychology OneDrive site for Graduate & Undergraduate Handbook; Internship Sites; Psychology Honors Program Requirements; Research Opportunities; Student Admissions, Outcomes and Other Data
News
Achievements
Arthur Shapiro won the Single Volume Reference/Science award from the American Publishers Awards for The Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions by Arthur G. Shapiro and Dejan Todorovic.
Spectrum, a publication devoted to covering autism research, featured Associate Professor of Psychology Catherine Stoodley's research on a particular region of the cerebellum that features in autism. Findings indicate that the region is disrupted in children with autism. Stoodley said, "These findings are incredibly exciting and provide strong evidence that this region is an important player."