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Graduate Studies in the Psychology Discipline

The Australian National University has strong academic programs in social psychology, clinical and health psychology, and cognition and perception but also undertakes research in a broad range of other areas.

Clinical and Health Psychology: Master and Doctoral programs are available in clinical psychology. For more detailed information about our Clinical program, students should check the Clinical Program Course Details page, and the Clinical Program and Supplementary Application Form handout. The clinical and health psychology group at ANU undertakes research that currently includes work on interpersonal functioning and psychological attachment in adolescents and adults, the study of child and family psychology and school psychology, investigations of the relationship between language and psychopathology and on the nature and development of anxiety disorders particularly OCD and PTSD, work on occupational stress and cardiovascular disease, adolescent stress, tobacco use in young people, coping with cancer and its treatment, and the study of illicit drug use.

Cognition/Perception: The cognition/perception group undertakes research that currently includes a strong emphasis on visual cognition (e.g., attention and visual neglect, face and object processing, reading and dyslexia), as well as early visual processing (motion and depth perception), memory (including implicit memory, false memory and metamemory), hemipsheric lateralisation and interaction, and motor control. Research methods include a mix of behavioural experiments and neuroimaging studies in neurologically normal participants, and neuropsychological studies of people with various cognitive and perceptual disorders. Research supervision is available for projects in all these areas, in some cases involving children as well as adults.

Social and Organizational Psychology: The ANU has one of the leading centres in the world for the study of areas such as social identity and self-categorization, particularly in relation to stereotypes and stereotyping, social influence, the self-concept and intergroup behaviour generally. A great deal of research at ANU is also centred on categorization in social psychology and on judgment and decision making under uncertainty.

You can see an alphabetical list of academics and their research topics, or browse by topic in the list below.

Programs within the Discipline are:

Clinical And Health Psychology

Cognition And Perception

Social And Organizational Psychology