The strong success of our research programs places Psychology Department research among a top department in the College of Arts and Sciences in terms of grant and contract awards.
Current research initiatives seek to:
- Promote social equity by
- understanding how prejudice and bias develop and can be changed
- discovering new approaches that reveal implicit bias, inequalities, disparities
- solving social justice issues
- Optimize human potential by increasing one’s resilience
- in young children and adults
- to address mental health disparities
- in vulnerable conditions
- with new and innovative intervention
- Understanding behavior through brain science to
- enhance communication
- make better decisions
- improve learning and emotional stability