Psychological Sciences Research Groups
Social/Personality Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Professor Nick Haslam
Our Laboratory explores an assortment of topics involving social perception and individual differences.
Affective Development and Psychopathology Team
Laboratory Director: Dr Julian Simmons
The Affective Development and Psychopathology Team (ADAPT) is a network of researchers investigating the environmental, interpersonal and biological processes that influence emotional reactivity and emotion regulation across the lifespan.
Attention Dynamics Lab
Laboratory Director: Associate Professor Katherine Johnson
We are interested in the ways infants, children, and adolescents think and act. We investigate how children focus on one task amidst a sea of choices and how they receive and respond to information.
Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Professor Stephen C Bowden
The Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology Laboratory is part of the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, located in the Redmond Barry Building at the University of Melbourne.
Clinical and Health Psychology
Laboratory Director: Associate Professor Carol Hulbert
Our Laboratory brings together a number of staff members who are interested in the phenomenology, classification, etiology, maintenance and outcomes of mental disorders across the entire lifespan.
Clinical and Music Neuroscience Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Professor Sarah Wilson
Our Laboratory investigates the brain mechanisms that underpin human hearing.
Cognitive and Neuropsychological Development Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Associate Professor Robert Reeve
Among other issues, we are interested in the neurological and cognitive causes of developmental dyscalculia; diagnosis and treatment of dyscalculia.
Cognitive Interventions Technologies and Evaluation Research Group (CITE)
Laboratory Directors: Dr Amit Lamput & Dr Alex Bahar-Fuchs
CITE is a research group within the Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age in the Department of Psychiatry, co-led by Dr Amit Lampit and Dr Alex Bahar-Fuchs. We develop, evaluate, implement and study the mechanisms of cognition-oriented treatments across the lifespan and brain disorders.
Cognitive Neuroimaging Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Professor Rob Hester
The implementation of cognitive control by the human brain is critical to a range of everyday activities, and the failure of this mechanism is believed to contribute to the symptom profile of a number of clinical conditions.
Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Dr Jason Forte
Behavioural and physiological responses to visual stimuli.Effects of electrophysiological stimulation on behavioural and physiological responses to visual stimuli.Modelling the relationship between visual input, and behavioural and physiological responses.
Computational Cognitive Science Lab
Research Group Leader: Associate Professor Amy Perfors
Our research focuses on quantitative approaches to higher-order cognition: categorisation, concepts, language acquisition and evolution, decision-making, and social learning and transmission
Decision-making & Affective Learning in Emotional Conditions (DALEC)
Laboratory Director: Dr Nicholas Van Dam
My research interests center on the use of cognitive neuroscience methods, decision science, and computational psychology/psychiatry to better understand and delineate high-prevalence symptoms across the spectrum from normal to pathological with a critical focus on value-based decision-making processes.
Decision Neuroscience Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Associate Professor Stefan Bode
Our research group focuses on the investigation of the neural mechanisms underlying perceptual, health-related, financial and voluntary decision-making, as well as decision errors and preference formation.
Functions of Emotions in Everyday Life (FEEL) Research Lab
Head of Lab: Dr Katie Greenaway & Dr Peter Koval
The FEEL Lab aims to discover how emotions function in the rich and complex environments we encounter in our daily lives.
Genes, Brain and Behaviour Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Dr Patrick Goodbourn
In our lab, we investigate how normal and disordered behaviours and brain functions are affected by our genes.
Knowledge, Information & Learning Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Associate Professor Daniel R Little
Our work focuses on understanding how we develop knowledge through experience and learning, how knowledge representations influence how we perceive and interpret new information, how our interpretations and perceptions influence our behaviour, and what our behaviour tells us about our knowledge.
Life-span Development Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Associate Professor Jeanette Lawrence
Our research focuses on different aspects of personal and social development in varying life periods across the whole of life.
Melbourne Psychology and Ageing
Directors: A/Prof Christina Bryant & A/Prof Kathryn Ellis
Our research draws on a biopsychosocial framework and considers mental health and wellbeing in the context of age-related physical, medical and cognitive conditions.
Social Networks Laboratory (MELNET)
Laboratory Director: Professor Garry Robins
Research and training in the theory, methods and applications of social networks.
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Dr Litza Kiropoulos
Our laboratory investigates the biological, psychological, social and cognitive mechanisms and processes involved in the development of affective and anxiety disorders.
Moral Psychology Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Dr Simon Laham
The Melbourne Moral Psychology Laboratory does research on the psychology of morality. Broadly, we are interested in the social, cognitive and affective processes that underpin moral judgement, decision making and behaviour.
Negotiation and Interactive Behaviour Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Professor Philip L Smith
We investigate the factors that shape negotiation processes and outcomes.
Neurocognitive Disorders Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Professor Sarah Wilson
This Laboratory investigates a range of neurocognitive disorders, including epilepsy, dementia and traumatic brain injury.
Objectification and Gender Lab
Laboratory Director: Dr Elise Holland
The Objectification and Gender Lab conducts research into the objectification of women, gender equality, and body image.
Personality Processes Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Dr Luke D Smillie
Personality can be defined in terms of regularities in behaviour and experience – e.g., the tendency to behave in particular ways, or to experience certain affective states. These regularities can be usefully organised in terms of five trait domains, often known as the Big Five.
Physical Appearance Research Team (PART)
Directors: Dr Scott Griffith & Dr Isabel Krug
Led by Drs Scott Griffiths and Isabel Krug, PART unites a team of academics, postdocs, research assistants and postgraduate and undergraduate students with a shared interest in the phenomena of human physical appearance.
Sleep Laboratory
Laboratory Director: A/Prof Amy Jordan & Dr Christian Nicholas
Respiratory and cardiovascular aspects of sleep in the context of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (including role of lung volume, arousal from sleep, OSA in Quadriplegia, treatment using acupuncture and surgical weight loss, and upper airway physiology).
Social Action Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Professor Yoshihisa Kashima
The Social Action Laboratory is primarily concerned with the antecedents and consequences of meaningful human social action.
Subcortical Disorders Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Dr Jacqueline Anderson
We seek to better understand how the middle part of the brain (subcortex) contributes to cognitive functions, particularly higher-level functions such as processing complex information
Time in Brain and Behaviour Laboratory
Principle Investigator: Dr Hinze Hogendoorn
The group is interested in researching Our brain needs time to process what our senses tell us. As a result, we are always living in the past: we act and choose on the basis of outdated information. So how is it possible that we can return a tennis serve or drive through fast-moving traffic?
Trauma Anxiety and Stress (TAS) Lab
Laboratory Director: Professor Kim Felmingham
Our research examines the mechanisms underlying the development and treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Anxiety Disorders, predictors of response to exposure therapy for anxiety disorders, and the impact of stress and trauma on brain and emotional functioning.
Vision and Attention Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Professor Philip L Smith
Work in our Laboratory seeks to explain how colour, motion, and attentional mechanisms operate within the visual system. We employ a diverse range of approaches including behavioural psychophysics, computational modelling, and electrophysiology.
Visual Cognition Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Associate Professor Piers Douglas Howe
Our Laboratory has a general interest in cognition, with a particular focus in visual perception.