Department of Psychology
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The Department's strategic plan encourages high quality, pioneering research in a number of specialised areas of psychology which underpin all its teaching and knowledge transfer activities. The Department has organised its research into three Research Centres and one Research Group:
FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY
- Intervention with offenders
- Detecting deception
- Witness memory and suggestibility
- Decision making in the forensic context
SITUATED ACTION AND COMMUNICATION
- The transparency of mind in action
- Nonverbal intersubjective engagements
- Culture and communication
- Materiality and mind
- Autism
COMPARATIVE AND EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY
- Strategic modulation of dynamic aspects of facial and vocal attractiveness
- Primate social cognition and communication
- Comparing emotional expression across species
- Domestic animal social cognition and communication
- Animal welfare and conservation
QUALITY OF LIFE, HEALTH AND WELLBEING
- Enhancing quality of life at work
- Empowering people with learning disabilities
- Empowering people with Autism
- Enhancing life in later years
- Enhancing student experience and learning success
- Enhancing human-environment interactions
- Multisensory perception
- Exploring techniques for enhancing wellbeing
Contact information
King Henry I Street
King Henry Building
PO1 2DY
Portsmouth
United Kingdom
- Phone: +44 (0)23 9284 6312
- Email: psychology@port.ac.uk
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