Welcome to Psychology at UCI, a joint website of the
Departments of Psychology and
Social Behavior (School of Social Ecology) and Cognitive
Sciences (School of Social Sciences) at the University of California, Irvine. Our Departments
offer Ph.D. programs
in Psychology with concentrations in Cognition and Information
Processing, Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Psychology, Health
Psychology, Mathematical Behavioral Science, Perception and Action,
Psychology and Law, Psychopathology, and Social/Personality Psychology.
Over 70 psychology faculty and affiliates of our departments hold key
positions in scientific organizations, have received numerous awards
for
distinguished research, and serve as editors of leading journals in the
field. Faculty positions include members of the National Academy
of Sciences,
several Fellows (including William James Fellows) of the American
Psychological
Society, fellows of the American Psychological Association and a
past
president of two divisions, several past presidents of the Society for
Mathematical Psychology, Fellows of the Society for Experimental
Psychology,
past Fellows of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral
Sciences,
and a Fellow of the International Organization of Psychophysiology.
Research awards to our faculty include American Psychological
Association Distinguished Research Awards, the Society for Experimental
Psychology Warren Medal, the Max Planck Research Award, and the Troland
Award of the National Academy
of Sciences. We also take pride in the quality of our teaching and many
of our faculty have received awards for distinguished teaching and
research
mentoring.
The faculty are members of the editorial boards of top journals,
including current or past Editors or Associate Editors of Psychological
Review, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, Child Development, Developmental
Psychology, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Psychology
and Aging, Cognition, Learning, Journal of
Mathematical Psychology, Perception & Psychophysics, Journal
of Motor Behavior, Vision Research, Health Psychology,
International
Journal of Psychophysiology, Journal of Abnormal Psychology,
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Journal of
Abnormal Child Psychology, Cognitive Therapy and Research, Journal
of Attention Disorders, and Social Psychology Quarterly.
With millions of dollars in current extramural funding, psychology faculty,
postdoctoral scholars, graduate and undergraduate students conduct
research in specialized laboratories and in natural settings such as
schools, homes, and health care facilities. Specialized laboratories
are available for research in in vision, audition, motor performance,
electrical brain potentials, and behavioral observation. Statistical
and modeling computation is supported
through extensive participation in the Institute for
Mathematical Behavioral Sciences. Members of the newly-founded
Center for Cognitive
Neuroscience make use of 1.5T and 4T magnets for fMRI research; a new 3T
magnet
will go online in mid-2006. Psychophysiological assessments are also
supported
by the laboratories of the Consortium for Integrative Health Studies. Several
laboratories are equipped with observation stations, one-way mirrors,
and audio-visual equipment for behavioral observation of children,
couples, families, and
larger groups.
The research of many faculty members and graduate students combines
laboratory methods with more naturalistic approaches in order to
achieve an
optimal blend of experimental control and generalizability. The natural
settings
in which faculty members conduct their studies include schools,
worksites,
homes, community centers, hospitals and medical clinics, psychiatric
facilities,
and women's shelters. As a site of the largest long-term study of child
care in the United States, the National
Institute of Child Health and Human
Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development,
we maintain
close ties with families and schools in the community. Research is
conducted,
not only locally, but also in other countries through the Laboratory for Within-Culture and Cross-Cultural Studies
of Human Development. Thus students have the opportunity to gain
experience investigating human behavior in clinical and nonclinical
populations, in diverse
regions of the country as well as in diverse cultures, and in field as
well
as laboratory settings.
The Departments of Cognitive Sciences and Psychology and Social
Behavior have close affiliations with several institutes, including:
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