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Department of Psychology

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Research Areas

Cognitive
human intelligence; analogical thinking; cognition; cognitive; aging; cognitive neuroscience; neurocognitice basis of empathy, morality, and psychopathy; neuropsychology of people with Alzheimer's disease; neurobiological basis of normal and disordered development of attention (e.g., ADD); memory

Developmental
developmental and community psychology; psychology, law, and social policy; adolescent and school violence; judgment and decision-making in legal contexts;  early child development; child and family policy; child care and early development; human emotions; historical, philosophical, and methodological aspects of psychology; infant memory development

Cultural
justice and culture; power relations; cross-cultural context of psychopathology; cultural and individual foundations of tolerance and intolerance; cultural and physiological correlates of eating disorders

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