Princeton University Department of Psychology
[17] As of 2024, the department is chaired by Casey Lew-Williams, a developmental psychologist known for his work on communication in human infancy.
"[19] According to university president John Hibben, the laboratory was the realization of a dream that Warren had cherished for a long time.
University president James McCosh was primary professor of psychology in the early days of the department.
An Office of Public Opinion Research was established when Hadley Cantril was department head: The Office's 1947 report Gauging Public Opinion noted the arrival of a new discipline: In 1963, the department relocated to Green Hall on the corner of Washington St. and William St.
The building, which had been previously occupied by the School of Engineering, was redesigned by university alumnus Francis W. Roudebush for the use of the psychology and sociology departments.
[24] At the time, Herrnstein was the victim of serious criticism because he had written an article in which he argued that genetic differences would play an increasingly larger role in the determination of social status.
[25] Because Princeton's University Action Group, a radical student organization, threatened to sabotage the event on the grounds that Herrnstein was a racist, the Harvard professor canceled his appearance.
[1][9] In December, 2013, the department relocated to the newly built Peretsman-Scully Hall, located farther down Washington Road on the southeast side of Poe Field.
program, run jointly with the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, are also able to pursue their doctoral degree in the department.
These programs range from animal motivation and conditioning processes to decision making in human social groups, from neurophysiological mechanisms controlling basic drives to attributional processes in judging other individuals, from the sensory and perceptual roots of human cognition to concept formation and problem solving behavior in the child and adult, from the mathematical and computer techniques employed in research to the mechanisms of attitude formation and change.
[32] Gender representation notwithstanding, female graduate students in psychology programs may benefit from same-sex mentors in their departments.
Run jointly by the university's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Psychology, the program was planned with the intent of being a “discipline plus” degree.
As part of the degree requirement, they must complete two junior research papers and a senior thesis under the supervision of the department's faculty members.
[50] Full professors are Jonathan Cohen, Joel Cooper, Nathaniel Daw, Susan Fiske, Asif Ghazanfar, Joan Girgus, Adele Goldberg, Elizabeth Gould, Michael Graziano, Tom Griffiths, Uri Hasson, Sabine Kastner, Casey Lew-Williams, Tania Lombrozo, Yael Niv, Kenneth A. Norman, Kristina Olson, Elizabeth Levy Paluck, Jonathan Pillow, Deborah Prentice, Emily Pronin, Eldar Shafir, Nicole Shelton, Stacey Sinclair, Susan Sugarman, Diana Tamir, and Elke Weber.
The department is closely affiliated with the Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior (CSBMB), which fosters research on the neural underpinnings of psychological function.
The CSBMB houses facilities for the study of brain function, including a research-dedicated, high-field fMRI scanner, an EEG laboratory, a TMS coil, an eye tracking laboratory, and high-performance computing facilities for data analysis and computational modeling.
[9] When the university unveiled its $1.75 billion capital campaign in 2007, it allocated $300 million to build a 240,000 sq ft (22,000 m2) headquarters for the department on a site of about 98 acres (400,000 m2).
The complex houses state-of-the-art labs, faculty offices, and classrooms in an attempt to push the university to the forefront of neuroscience and behavioral science research.
