Research Opportunities
Our master's program involves hands-on and intensive faculty-mentored research experiences culminating in a master's thesis. Accepted students will be paired with a faculty mentor and work with faculty in completing psychological research each semester. Our faculty have a diverse range of research interests across many domains within psychological science, so it is possible for students to find mentors who work with human and non-human animal participants on basic and/or applied research questions. We encourage prospective students to identify faculty mentors with shared research interests by visiting their websites and contacting them via e-mail.
Psychological Research at Brooklyn College
Individual laboratories in the department focus on topics such as creativity and cognition in the arts, computational cognition, prejudice and discrimination, cognition in invertebrates (e.g., octopus), the role of inequality in cognitive development, the neurobiological bases of psychopathic behavior, metamemory (knowledge of one's own memory), the development of children and adolescents' career goals, moral decision-making, the neurobehavioral and computational mechanisms of associative learning and causality perception, and many more.
All labs are well equipped, and many have attracted funding from NSF, NIH, NASA, DARPA, and other organizations. Several faculty members have appointments and working collaborations with research labs in city hospitals and medical schools with access to technologies such as fMRI.
Learn more about faculty research areas by viewing their bio pages and lab websites listed on these pages:
- Visit our list of faculty and view Brooklyn College bios and lab websites.
- Visit our psychology research page for brief descriptions of faculty research interests.
