Department of Psychology

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

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SITUATED ACTION AND COMMUNICATION

• The transparency of mind in action
• Nonverbal intersubjective engagements
• Culture and communication
• Materiality and mind
• Autism

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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

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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

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