Although students are accepted into one of four departmenal areas, we offer training in numerous
cross-cutting themes
of study. As such, students have access to multiple
faculty and research programs within and outside the department with common interests.
The faculty composing our programs are internationally known scholars. They hold editorial positions at major Psychology journals, are members of grant panels at the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, and hold substantial research grants. With their students, they present their work at major national conferences and publish in leading journals.
The Biopsychology program offers a year-long and excellent graduate course in behavioral and cognitive neuroscience.
The Clinical program has been ranked first in the country for the past 10 years and second for the past 30 years in training clinical faculty.
The Cognitive/Experimental program has 7 faculty members with interests in language, memory, decision making, and visual attention. The program offers an unusually colleaguial atmosphere, where faculty, students, and post-docs frequently collaborate with each other and with members of other departments (e.g., Computer Science and Linguistics).
Stony Brook was one of the first programs in the country to merge the areas of Social and Health psychology. Although other top schools have since followed SBU’s lead (e.g., Carnegie Melon, UCLA, University of Miami), ours is considered to be one of the flagship institutions for social/health psychology.
