The Department of Psychology is organized into five programs, each of which has several subareas in which two or more faculty members specialize:

• Clinical Psychology
  Clinical neuropsychology
  Couple and family psychology
  Health psychology
  Intervention research
  Mental health evaluation and policy
  Psychophysiology
  Sleep

• Cognition and Neural Systems (CNS)
  Affect
  Cognitive Aging
  Computational Neuroscience
  Decision Making
  Environmental Psychology
  Language and Language Development
  Memory and Learning
  Neuroimaging
  Sleep and Cognition
  Spatial Cognition
  Stress
  Visual Cognition

• Ethology and Evolutionary Psychology
  Evolutionary Psychology of Life History Strategy and Social Deviance
  Evolutionary Neuroscience
  Quantitative Ethology

• Psychology, Policy and Law
  
  Empirical studies of law and legal processes
  Forensic science underlying practice
  
  Improving the law, legal systems, and legal processes
  Violent and criminal behavior
  
  Intersection of developmental and social cognitive science and criminal jurisprudence and law

• Social Psychology
  Attitudes and Persuasion
  Cultural Psychology
  Personality expression
  Racial and ethnic identity
  Self-concept and self-esteem
  Social psychology of health
  Stereotyping and prejudice
  Terror Management Theory (TMT)