Our faculty are actively engaged in research on a variety of topics, including the effects of hormones and drugs on behavior, the effects of heredity and environment on intelligence, cognitive development in children, relation of perception and action, aging, adolescence and identity development, adjustment to new environments, and grief and bereavement. Many of the Department's students have presented papers at regional and national undergraduate and professional meetings and have published their work in professional journals. The undergraduate liberal arts degree in psychology also provides students with many advanced-study and career options and has led to students being placed in graduate programs in psychology, medicine, and law as well as a wide variety of work places. The first research experience for most psychology majors is Research Methods . At the end of the course the Department sponsors an Undergraduate Research Colloquium during which students formally present the results of their research.
Many students pursue further research under the direction of faculty sponsors.
In addition to presenting the results of their research at regional and national meetings the Psychology Department sponsors an Advanced Research Colloquium each spring at which students present the results of the research they have conducted over the past year in a poster session.