Research
Areas of research
Although the group of the graduate is not divided into subareas formal, the teachers of the Group of Graduate programs in Psychology have research interests that can be classified broadly into the following two areas:
| Ciencia del cerebro, cognitiva y de la decisión | Psicología Clínica, Positiva y Social |
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The Group of the Graduate program in Psychology offers a wide range of opportunities for research in cognitive science and the brain. The professors and graduate students studying the neural mechanisms of cognitive and underlying perception, attention, learning, memory, language, decision-making processes, the search for food and the mechanisms neurorreguladores.
Postgraduate training is based on a learning model of research, but may also involve collaborations between leading researchers in different laboratories. Doctoral students participate in a rich community of researchers from multiple departments and centers that offers a wide range of talks and a series of informal workshops. Graduate students in Psychology who study Cognitive Science and the Brain also interact closely with graduate students in Neuroscience, Bioengineering, and Linguistics. |
The Group of the Graduate program in Psychology offers a wide range of research opportunities in clinical psychology, positive and social. The professors and graduate students in these areas of study a variety of topics that cross the traditional boundaries of psychology.
Clinical Psychology has a proud history at the University of Pennsylvania, beginning with Lightner Witmer, who established the first clinic of psychology in the united States in the NVU in 1896. The clinical training program is designed to prepare clinical scientists, highly skilled, and creative.
The Center of Positive Psychology is at the forefront of a new field called Positive Psychology whose mission is to understand and build emotions, strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.
The academics working in the area of Social Psychology to investigate a wide variety of domains ranging from the decision-making individual to large-scale phenomena such as social networks. |
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Below is a list of areas of interest for the research. By clicking on each link, you will find teachers who have interests in each area. Many teachers also maintain websites laboratory that provide more detailed information on their programs of research.
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Below is a list of areas of interest for the research. By clicking on each link, you will find teachers who have interests in each area. Many teachers also maintain websites laboratory that provide more detailed information on their programs of research.
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To participate in the research
Opportunities to participate in research
The research is at the heart of the mission of the Department of Psychology. The advancement of psychology is based on research that requires the participation of researchers, research assistants and participants in human subjects. We invite you to participate in the research division is in one or more of these roles, volunteering to be a research subject, working in a research laboratory as a research assistant in paid or volunteer, or register to get credits of independent research. Below you will find links to research projects conducted by faculty or students of the department for the required participants. Some of them offer payment for participation. Other links will inform you of the opportunities available to earn credit for independent study.
For more information about opportunities to volunteer as a participant, follow the links below
- Participants in the group of subjects of Psychology SONA – for-credit student
- Participants of MindCORE SONA: studies volunteers and paid open to the community
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