Our research is broad in scope and involves a number of significant national, international and interdisciplinary collaborations.
Our research is broad in scope and involves a number of significant national, international and interdisciplinary collaborations.
RSP has outstanding researchers in a number of key areas of psychology including:
- acquired brain injury
- anxiety disorders including obsessive compulsive disorder
- child attachment and at-risk youth
- clinical neuropsychology
- chronic illness including stress, quality of life
- cognitive neuropsychology
- computer algorithms to mimic human decision-making
- driving
- dyslexia
- eating disorders
- educational psychology
- ethnocentrism
- experimental psychopathology
- face recognition and the working of the visual system
- intergroup conflict and co-operation
- judgement and decision-making
- parenting programs
- personality
- prejudice and stereotyping
- language development in early childhood (even from 9 months old)
- language development and psychopathology in children (anxiety, depression, emotional and behavioural problems)
- leadership
- positive psychology in organisations (high schools, work places) where people can thrive and flourish.
- scale development and measurement
- schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders
- social cohesion
- social-emotional learning
- statistical and data analytic methods
- stigma
- visual attention and explaining why we attend to some things and not others
- vision and motion
- well-being