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Learn more about our six subject groups and their members. Our subject groups are a focal point for both research and teaching.

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Biological psychology

Addiction, ageing and dementia, brain-body interactions and comparative psychology.

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Clinical psychology

Psychosis, anxiety, depression, OCD, trauma, digital mental health, prevention and intervention.

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Cognitive psychology

Memory, perception, attention, language, consciousness and cognitive neuroscience.

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Developmental psychology

Infant and child cognition and family and peer relations.

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Research methods

Teaching of statistics, qualitative methods, open science and Bayesian methods.

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Social psychology

Social identity, crowd behaviour, cross-cultural psychology, kindness.


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