Department wins Undergraduate Teaching award
May 9, 2012
The department has been awarded the Departmental Award for Excellence and Innovation in Undergraduate...
Welcome to the Department of Psychology
Announcement: The Department of Psychology anticipates recruiting for a number of faculty positions beginning in the fall of 2012. Please check back from time to time for new postings.
We are very pleased to welcome several new faculty and staff to the Psychology Department. Meet our new people here.
Psychology is a remarkably broad field that studies mind and behavior at all levels of analysis ranging from the micro to the macro; from single cells to complex systems; from individuals to groups and cultures; and from invertebrates to humans. Our department is committed to research, teaching/mentorship, and service. We have over 1,000 undergraduate majors and enroll approximately 100 graduate students in our Ph.D. programs. Graduate students have an unusually high success rate in securing external funding, and we have an excellent track record for placing them following their Ph.D.s. Much of the research within the department is funded by extramural sources and is published in highly visible outlets. Over 60% of the faculty members are fellows in their scientific societies, almost half have received an external career award, and a third have held Editor or Associate Editor positions.
Our department is organized into five Ph.D. program areas:
- Clinical
- Cognitive and Neural Systems (CNS)
- Counseling
- Developmental
- Social, Decision, and Organizational Science (SDOS)
Cutting across these areas and knitting them together are three research themes:
- Brain, Mind, and Behavior
- Mental Health
- Social, Group, and Cultural Processes
Please browse through our site to learn more about our department.
Department News
Infant and Child Studies Consortium participated in Maryland Day
May 9, 2012
Faculty and students from the Psychology Department recently participated in the 14th annual Maryland...
Doctoral program in Counseling psychology APA accreditation renewed
April 23, 2012
The doctoral program in Counseling psychology's application for continued accreditation by the ...
Dr. Michael Dougherty on the Diane Rehm show
April 23, 2012
Mike Dougherty was on the Diane Rehm show discussing racial profiling in America. More info can be...
Psychology researchers featured in NYT Magazine
April 19, 2012
Research by Susanne Jaeggi and Martin Buschkuehl is featured in a New York Times Magazine piece ...
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MAY
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Development Discovery Night
The UMD Infant & Child Studies Consortium is doing research on development in children from 2 months to 18 years. All this is possible because of the families who volunteer their participation. We want to thank you and share some of what weve learned! This event for the whole family will include light refreshments, and a small play area and changing station. Come discover more about our labs and results from recent and ongoing studies!More information can be found at the link below
A massive study carried out by Dr. Michele Gelfand and colleagues examines nations around the world in terms of whether they are tight or loose. 
Dr. Jens Herberholz discovers that crayfish integrate information from different sources in the environment in previously unexpected ways. 
A study carried out by Dr. Andrea Chronis-Tuscano provides new evidence of an association between childhood diagnoses of ADHD and depression and suicide among teenagers. 
Research carried out by Dr, Michele Gelfand and her colleague Dr. Hannah Riley Bowles indicates that bias in workplace evaluations can be affected by both the perceived status of the employee and the person making the evaluation. 
A theory of judgment that unifies the processes underlying deliberative and intuitive judgements is presented by Dr. Arie Kruglanski and his colleague Dr. Gerd Gigerenzer.