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Psychology

Welcome!

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Welcome to the web pages of the Psychology Department! The department is part of the College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences. Currently we are one of the largest majors on campus with over 600 undergraduate students. We are committed to providing a positive learning experience and preparing undergraduates for professional work and/or further graduate education.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • Congratulations to UALR faculty Dr. David Mastin and Dr. Julie Steel, Hendrix College faculty Dr. Jennifer Pezka and UALR student Brittany Berry for their work in presenting THIS study, which has received attention from multiple media sources, including THIS interview with Dr. Mastin.
  • Congratulations to our students who won recognition with their submissions to the 2011 Undergraduate Research Expo. Tammy Stafford, Marie Stacks and Stephanie Taylor in collaboration with faculty mentors Dr. Julie Steel and Dr. David Mastin won 1st place in the Social Sciences division with their submission entitled, “The Role of Self-and Other-Referent Counterfactual Thoughts in Vengeance-Seeking”. Brittany Berry in collaboration with faculty mentors Dr. Julie Steel, Dr. David Mastin and Dr. Jennifer Peszka won 2nd place in the Social Sciences division with their submission entitled, “The Relationship Between Social Cognition and Sleepiness Among College Students”. CONGRATULATIONS!
  • Check out a new summer program for high school students called: Busting Myths with Social Science Research

Mission

The Psychology Department strives for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service. We accomplish this by applying psychological knowledge, skills, and tools to further human welfare and by producing well-trained students.

Departmental Goals

  1. The Psychology Department will strive for excellence in applying psychological skills, tools, and knowledge about psychology and will be producers of these techniques and knowledge.
  2. The Psychology Department will play an active and productive role in helping the University as a whole, especially when applying psychological expertise.
  3. The Psychology Department will seek to bring external funds into the department and/or the community.
  4. The Psychology Department will form connections with internal and external stakeholders.
  5. The Psychology Department will support excellent teaching and will encourage student participation in the learning process. Students will be well-trained in the tools of psychology in one or more of these areas: program evaluation, health psychology, research methodology, statistics.
  6. The Psychology Department will continuously evaluate the quality of its efforts and use the data to make improvements.
Updated 6.21.2011