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: Prof. Nick Allen
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: Dr Katherine Johnson
We are interested in the ways children and adolescents think and act. We investigate how children focus on one task amidst a sea of choices. We research how children receive and respond to information.
Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Professor Stephen C Bowden
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 Neuroimaging Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Associate 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
Computational Cognitive Science Lab
Our research focuses on quantitative approaches to higher-order cognition: categorisation, concepts, language acquisition and evolution, decision-making, and social learning and transmission
Decision science in Affective Learning and Emotional Conditions Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Dr Nicholas van Dam
Decision Neuroscience Laboratory
Laboratory Director: Dr 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.
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: Dr 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.
Social Networks Laboratory (MELNET)
Laboratory Director: Professor Garry Robins
Research and training in the theory, methods and applications of social networks.
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)
Physical Appearance Research Team (PART)
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
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: Professor 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?
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: Dr Piers Douglas Howe
Our Laboratory has a general interest in cognition, with a particular focus in visual perception.