The building was opened in July 2016 by Professor Dame Vicki Bruce and cost £30 million.
The department also has a BioPac lab, which allows for measuring physiological factors including galvanic skin response, electromyography and EEG.
[10] Recent studies conducted in the department involve hoarding behaviour,[11] smart energy meters,[12] recognition of facial expressions by adolescents with conduct disorder[13][14] and cycling safety.
[19] The department also has several postgraduate degree programmes:[20] The department undertakes research in many areas of psychology, including cognitive, developmental, clinical, health, social and environmental psychology.
[21] The department has four main research themes:[2] Other research interests of the department include pain, health psychology, neuroimaging and brain stimulation,[22] emotion and decision making,[23] social cognition, education technology,[24] multisensory perception and organizational psychology.