concentrations
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- behavioral and evolutionary neuroscience
- perception, cognition and development
- social and personality psychology
Psychology
Graduate Field/Program
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The Graduate Field of Psychology includes 39 faculty members from departments across the university including Psychology, Human Development, and Neurobiology and Behavior. Only Ph.D. candidates are admitted. The Field does not have an M.A. program. The goal of the Field is to educate students to become researchers, scholars, and teachers who will contribute to the future of psychology as a scientific discipline in academic or other research-oriented settings. The dominant strengths of the Field lie in three broadly defined areas: biopsychology, cognition and perception, and social/personality psychology. We do not offer training in clinical psychology, counseling, school psychology, community psychology, industrial psychology, or clinical neuropsychology. Applicants with primary interests in these subjects are not admitted.
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Research facilities include: special rooms for research in problems of perception and cognition; a social-psychology laboratory equipped for experimental and observational studies; electrophysiological, histological, and chemical laboratories; surgery facilities; facilities for the maintenance and behavioral study of vertebrate and invertebrate laboratory animals; darkrooms and shops; an audiovisual studio equipped for the study of teaching; laboratory computers and interacting terminals with the capacity to control equipment in experiments and to do online processing and complex data analyses; and other specialized facilities, both on campus and at various off-campus locations.
Students develop an independent program of study in consultation with their Special Committee. The three primary members of the Special Committee must be chosen by the end of the first year; students are encouraged to select at least one member (not the chairperson) from a field other than psychology. The Director of Graduate Studies appoints a fourth member, whose function is to ensure that the student obtains adequate breadth of training.
The Special Committee oversees requirements that are established by the field. Current requirements include a first-year review and annual meetings of the Special Committee to review the student's progress; a research paper completed by the end of the first year and an oral report of the research presented to a meeting of students and faculty members; a one-year course in statistics and experimental design; at least ten hours a week of supervised teaching experience for at least two semesters; the Admission to Candidacy examination, which should be taken by the end of the third year (a Graduate School requirement); a written dissertation proposal, which must be accepted at a meeting of the Special Committee called for that purpose; and the doctoral dissertation itself with a final examination on the dissertation (Graduate School requirements).
field members
- Bass, Andrew Professor
- Bem, Sandra Lipsitz Cornell Emeritus Professor
- Brainerd, Charles Professor / Department Chair
- Casasola, Marianella Associate Professor
- Ceci, Stephen John Helen L. Carr Professor of Developmental Psychology
- Christiansen, Morten H. Professor
- Cleland, Thomas A. Assistant Professor
- Cutting, James Eric Professor
- Devoogd, Timothy John Professor
- Dunning, David Alan Professor
- Edelman, Shimon J. Professor
- Ferguson, Melissa J. Associate Professor
- Field, David James Professor
- Finlay, Barbara L. William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Psychology
- Gilovich, Tom Professor
- Goldstein, Michael H. Associate Professor
- Halpern, Bruce Peter S.L. Sage Professor
- Hammer, Tove Helland Cornell Faculty Member
- Hancock, Jeff Associate Professor
- Hazan, Cindy Associate Professor
- Isen, Alice M. S.C. Johnson Professor of Marketing
- Johnston, Robert Elliott Professor
- Koslowski, Barbara Associate Professor
- Krumhansl, Carol Lynne Professor
- Kushnir, Tamar Evalyn Edwards Milman Assistant Professor
- Lawless, Harry Thomas Cornell Emeritus Professor
- Levitsky, David A Cornell Faculty Member
- Linster, Christiane Cornell Faculty Member
- Lust, Barbara Professor
- Mikels, Joseph Anthony Cornell Faculty Member
- Neisser, Ulric Cornell Emeritus Professor
- Pizarro, David A. Associate Professor
- Regan, Dennis Thomas Associate Professor
- Regan, Elizabeth Senior Associate Dean
- Reyna, Valerie F. Professor / Department Extension Leader
- Savin-Williams, Ritch C. Professor
- Segal, Harry George Cornell Academic Staff
- Smith, David M. Assistant Professor
- Strupp, Barbara Jean Professor, Division of Nutritional Sciences & Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychology
- Suh, Sung Won Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow
- Zayas, Vivian Assistant Professor