New research provides evidence that the repetitive thoughts occupying a person’s mind can directly influence the spontaneous memories they experience later. This phenomenon, termed “preoccupation ...

Industrial and organisational psychology is a multidisciplinary field that applies psychological theories and research methods to understand and enhance workplace dynamics. This area of study explores ...

Forensic psychology represents an interdisciplinary field in which psychological principles, research methodologies and clinical practices are applied within legal contexts. Its scope spans from the ...

The field of clinical psychology faces the growing challenge of addressing cultural diversity in an increasingly mobile world. Global migration has resulted ...

As global environmental change accelerates, humans are increasingly exposed to a spectrum of climate-related stressors such as extreme weather events, ...

Incels capture extraordinary public attention not because they are especially numerous or violent, but because their stories tap into deep-rooted psychological biases that make them unusually ...

This program was updated from an MA in General Psychology to an MS in Psychological Research in Fall 2024. Students in the Psychological Research program can create individual programs in conjunction ...

Findings of psychological research now regularly escape the ivory towers of academe to permeate popular media. This results in misunderstandings, misinterpretations, and misquoting of research ...

When Abraham Tesser (MS ’65, PhD ’67) was about to embark on his graduate studies in the Purdue University Department of Psychological Sciences, his mother, a New Yorker who had never been to Indiana, ...