Research FieldsResearch Fields
Our graduate program provides training in the following areas:
Abnormal and Clinical Psychology
Abnormal and Clinical Psychology program
The Clinical Psychology program focuses on investigating mental illness, abnormal behaviors and psychiatric problems induced by genetic or environmental factors. It also applies psychological principles to the assessment, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of psychological distress, disability, and dysfunctional behaviors, and to the enhancement of psychological and physical well-being.
Basic Psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology program
The Experimental and Cognitive Psychology program concentrates on research in vision, attention, multisensory perception, inductive reasoning, creativity, memory, language processing, problem solving , conscious and unconscious processes, cognitive training.
Psychobiology program
The major focus of the Psychobiology program is on investigating the neural mechanisms underlying affective and mental processes.
Specific research topics include (1) coding of emotional memory, neural plasticity in addictive or other pathological behavior, and neural basis of recent and remote memory; (2) from multidisciplinary approaches to explore the neurobiology of the mind and reward-based decision making using genetically modified mice, hamsters, humans, and schizophrenic patients; and (3) neural basis and functional circuitry of visual perception in non-human primates.
Developmental Psychology program
The Developmental Psychology program focuses on concept development, Chinese children’s language and memory development, early socio-emotional development, parent-child relationships, and children in the legal context .
Cultural, Social and Differential Psychology
Personality and Social Psychology program
The Personality and Social Psychology program is characterized by its indigenous approach with the objective to construct culture-inclusive theories for understanding Chinese psychology in their social, culture and historical context.
Industrial/Organizational program
The Industrial/Organizational program studies indigenous characteristics of Chinese enterprises in various research areas. These include motivation, leadership organizational culture, inter-organizational relationship, customer satisfaction, and the impact of relationships in dyadic interaction and networking with an emphasis on loyalty, commitment and trust.
Psychometrics program
The Psychometrics program focuses on the research and application of measurement methods to the scientific study of human behavior and the construction of psychological tests for various institutions in the country.