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[[File:Peretsman-Scully Hall.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Peretsman-Scully Hallhsbu. 2002 to replace Green Hall as the home of the Psychology Department and [[Princeton Neuroscience Institute|Neuroscience Institute]]]]

The '''Princeton University Department of Psychology''', located in Peretsman-Scully Hall, is an [[academic department]] of [[Princeton University]] in [[Princeton, New Jersey|Princeton]], [[New Jersey]]. For over a century, the department has been one of the most notable [[psychology]] departments in the country.<ref name=autogenerated10>{{cite book |last1=Leitch |first1=Alexander |title=A Princeton Companion |date=2015 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=9781400870011 |url=http://etcweb.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/psychology_department.html |access-date=August 10, 2017}}</ref> It has been home to psychologists who have made significant scientific discoveries in psychology and [[neuroscience]], such as adult [[neurogenesis]] in primate brains,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gould |first1=E. |last2=Reeves |first2=A. J. |last3=Fallah |first3=M. |last4=Tanapat |first4=P. |last5=Gross |first5=C. G. |last6=Fuchs |first6=E. |title=Hippocampal neurogenesis in adult Old World primates |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |date=1999 |volume=96 |issue=9 |pages=5263–5267|doi=10.1073/pnas.96.9.5263 |doi-access=free |pmid=10220454 |pmc=21852 |bibcode=1999PNAS...96.5263G }}</ref> the concept of the [[cognitive miser]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fiske |first1=S. T. |last2=Taylor |first2=S. E. |title=Social Cognition |date=1984 |publisher=Random House |location=New York}}</ref> bystander non-intervention,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Darley |first1=J. M. |last2=Latané |first2=B. |title=Bystander intervention in emergencies: Diffusion of responsibility |journal=Journal of Personality and Social Psychology |date=1968 |volume=8 |issue=4 |pages=377–383|doi=10.1037/h0025589 |pmid=5645600 }}</ref> face-selective neurons in primate brains,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gross |first1=C. |title=Processing the facial image: A brief history |journal=American Psychologist |date=2005 |volume=60 |issue=8 |pages=755–762|doi=10.1037/0003-066X.60.8.755 |pmid=16351399 }}</ref> [[feature integration theory]],<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Treisman |first1=A. M. |last2=Gelade |first2=G. |title=A feature-integration theory of attention |journal=Cognitive Psychology |date=1980 |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=97–136|doi=10.1016/0010-0285(80)90005-5 |pmid=7351125 }}</ref> [[mental model|mental models theory]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Johnson-Laird |first1=P. N. |title=Mental Models |date=1983 |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge, MA}}</ref> and [[prospect theory]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kahneman |first1=D. |last2=Tversky |first2=A. |title=Prospect theory: An analysis of decisions under risk |journal=Econometrica |date=1979 |volume=47 |issue=2 |pages=313–327|doi=10.2307/1914185 |jstor=1914185 }}</ref>

The department's large undergraduate and graduate programs are highly ranked and it has developed a well-respected [[neuroscience]] program.<ref name=autogenerated11>{{cite journal |last1=Contreras |first1=J. |title=Six years of research on brain, mind, and behavior in Green Hall |journal=Innovation Magazine |date=2006 |volume=8 |issue=1}}</ref> The faculty have received numerous awards, including a [[Nobel Prize]],<ref>{{cite journal |last=Smith |first=D. |title=Psychologist wins Nobel Prize |journal=Monitor on Psychology |date=2002 |volume=33 |issue=11 |page=22}}</ref> six Distinguished Contributions awards from the [[American Psychological Association]],<ref>{{cite web |title=List of Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest recipients |url=http://www.apa.org/archives/adcpi.html |website=American Psychological Association |access-date=August 10, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090411205740/http://www.apa.org/archives/adcpi.html |archive-date=April 11, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=List of Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions recipients |url=http://www.apa.org/archives/adcpi.html |website=American Psychological Association |access-date=July 11, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090411205740/http://www.apa.org/archives/adcpi.html |archive-date=April 11, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=List of Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions To Psychology recipients |url=http://www.apa.org/archives/adseccp.html |website=American Psychological Association |access-date=July 11, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020116054933/http://www.apa.org/archives/adseccp.html |archive-date=January 16, 2002}}</ref> and three [[William James]] Fellow awards<ref>{{cite web |title=List of the William James Fellow Award recipients |url=http://www.psychologicalscience.org/awards/james/recipients.cfm |website=Association for Psychological Science |access-date=July 11, 2008 |archive-date=May 17, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517074849/http://www.psychologicalscience.org/awards/james/recipients.cfm |url-status=dead }}</ref> from the [[Association for Psychological Science]] (APS). Additionally, faculty members have previously served as presidents of the APS,<ref>{{cite web |title=Past APS presidents |url=http://www.psychologicalscience.org/about/board.cfm |website=Association for Psychological Science |access-date=July 10, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526194342/http://www.psychologicalscience.org/about/board.cfm |archive-date=May 26, 2011}}</ref> are fellows of the APS,<ref>{{cite web |title=Association for Psychological Science: APS Fellows |url=http://www.psychologicalscience.org/fellows/fellows-new.cfm?sort=affiliation |website=Association for Psychological Science |access-date=August 10, 2017}}</ref> and have been inducted into the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Member Search |url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/?q=&site=nas_members&requiredfields=(member_section:Psychological%20and%20Cognitive%20Sciences)&partialfields=(member_institution:Princeton) |website=National Academy of Sciences |access-date=August 10, 2017}}</ref> As of 2024, the department is chaired by Casey Lew-Williams, a developmental psychologist known for his work on communication in human infancy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Administration & Staff |url=https://psychology.princeton.edu/people/administration-staff |access-date=2024-09-19 |website=Psychology |language=en}}</ref>

==History==
[[File:Eno Hall.gif|thumb|right|Eno Hall (1924)]]
In 1893, fourteen years after [[Wilhelm Wundt]] founded the first psychology [[laboratory]] in the world, a Psychology Laboratory was built in [[Nassau Hall]], the oldest building in the university, under the leadership of [[James Mark Baldwin|J. Mark Baldwin]]. In 1915, psychology received recognition in the title when the department was renamed Department of Philosophy and Psychology. It was not until 1920, however, that the Department of Psychology was established with Howard Warren as its first chairman.<ref name=autogenerated10 /> In 1924, Eno Hall was constructed to house the department. The building was named in honor of [[Henry Lane Eno|Henry Eno]], the principal donor and research associate in psychology. Warren was also a donor, but he chose to keep his donation anonymous at the time. He commented that it was "the first laboratory in this country, if not in the world, dedicated solely to the teaching and investigation of [[experimental psychology|scientific psychology]]."<ref>[http://etcweb.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/mfs.cgi?id=2&link=http%3a%2f%2fetcweb%2eprinceton%2eedu%2f%43ampus%57%57%57%2f%43ompanion%2feno%5fhall%2ehtml&file=%2fvar%2flocal%2fasweb%2fwww%2fapps%2fglimpse%2fwg2%2farchives%2f2%2f%2ecache%2f182%5f201011121511%2eabra&line=8&highlight=eno%7chall#mfs Eno Hall] from {{cite book|last1=Leitch|first1=Alexander|title=A Princeton Companion|date=2015|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=9781400870011}}</ref> According to university president [[John Grier Hibben|John Hibben]], the laboratory was the realization of a dream that Warren had cherished for a long time.

University president [[James McCosh]] was primary professor of psychology in the early days of the department.<ref name=autogenerated2>Maier, B. N. (2004). The role of James McCosh in God's exile from psychology. ''History of Psychology'', ''7''(4), 323-339.</ref> Baldwin, who studied under both McCosh and Wundt, continued this tradition.

[[File:Green Hall2.jpg|thumb|right|Green Hall (c. 1996)]]

An Office of Public Opinion Research was established when [[Hadley Cantril]] was department head:
:Already by the mid-1930s, Cantril made contact with [[George Gallup|Gallup]], who, welcoming recognition of his new methods by an academic scholar, offered the Princeton man the full use of his facilities at cost. Later, in 1940, Cantril secured a [[Rockefeller Foundation]] grant to set up the Office of Public Opinion Research at Princeton. The objectives of this new institute included not only learning how to measure [[public opinion]] systematically and accurately but also understanding the psychology of public opinion, "how and why it changes, what motivates large segments of the public."<ref>J. Michael Sproule (1997) ''Propaganda and Democracy'', page 183, [[Cambridge University Press]] {{ISBN|0-521-47022-6}}.</ref>

The Office's 1947 report ''Gauging Public Opinion'' noted the arrival of a new [[discipline (academia)|discipline]]:
:Over the past ten years, public opinion research has evolved from an academic pastime and commercial toy to a distinct discipline. American business has avidly exploited the enormous possibilities of the sampling technique in market research. Newspaper and magazine publishers quickly recognized the news value of reporting on the nation's opinions. And now responsible public officials have learned to take opinion polls seriously for their contribution to modern statecraft.<ref>[[Hadley Cantril]] and associates of the Office of Public Opinion Research (1947) : [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.275054 Gauging Public Opinion], page vii, Princeton University Press</ref>

In 1963, the department relocated to Green Hall on the corner of Washington St. and William St. The building, which had been previously occupied by the School of [[Engineering]], was redesigned by university alumnus Francis W. Roudebush for the use of the psychology and [[sociology]] departments.<ref name=green>[http://etcweb.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/green_hall.html Green Hall] from {{cite book|last1=Leitch|first1=Alexander|title=A Princeton Companion|date=2015|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=9781400870011}}</ref>

In 1972, the Princeton Psychology Colloquium Committee, which schedules weekly speeches and discussions for psychology students, invited [[Richard Herrnstein]], psychology professor at [[Harvard University]] to speak about the vision of pigeons.<ref name=autogenerated4>[http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=245084 Herrnstein feels threatened, cancels Princeton appearance]. (1972). ''The Harvard Crimson''. Retrieved August 6, 2008.</ref> At the time, Herrnstein was the victim of serious criticism because he had written an article in which he argued that [[Human genetic variation|genetic differences]] would play an increasingly larger role in the determination of [[social status]].<ref>Heyman, G. M., Maher, B. A., White, S. H., & Wilson, J. Q. (1998). [http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1998/03.12/FacultyofArtsan.html Faculty of Arts and Sciences, memorial minute]. ''The Harvard University Gazette''. Retrieved August 6, 2008.</ref> Because Princeton's University Action Group, a radical student organization, threatened to sabotage the event on the grounds that Herrnstein was a [[racist]], the Harvard professor canceled his appearance. Kamin asserted that "the climate in which [Herrnstein's] decision was made raises serious questions about [[freedom of speech]]."<ref name=autogenerated4 />

Most of the department's graduates from the classes of 2004 to 2007 had placements in the faculties of [[research universities]] and post-doctoral positions.<ref name="autogenerated8">Princeton University Graduate School. (2017). [http://psych.princeton.edu/people/graduate-students Graduate Students]</ref> Thanks to a group of faculty and students who work across traditional disciplines and departments, interdisciplinary research and scholarship in the department has grown significantly since the end of the twentieth century.<ref name=autogenerated10 /><ref name=autogenerated11 />

In December, 2013, the department relocated to the newly built Peretsman-Scully Hall, located farther down Washington Road on the southeast side of Poe Field.

==Academic==
The quality of the department's teaching and research has been recognized by high rankings in ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' (''USNWR'')<ref>''U.S. News & World Report''. (2008). [http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/grad/psy/search America's Best Graduate Schools: Psychology]. Retrieved July 10, 2008.</ref> and the [[United States National Research Council|National Research Council]].<ref>National Research Council report as [http://www.socialpsychology.org/ranking.htm referenced] by the Social Psychology Network. Retrieved July 10, 2008.</ref>

===Graduate===
The [[Postgraduate education|graduate]] study is focused on [[systems neuroscience]], [[cognitive neuroscience]], perception and cognition, personality and social psychology, and physiological psychology. It is a preparatory program for a [[Ph.D.]], which takes approximately five years to complete,<ref name=autogenerated8 /> and a career of scholarship in psychology.<ref>Princeton University Department of Psychology. (2004). [https://weblamp.princeton.edu/~psych/psychology/grad/main/index.php General information on graduate programs] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100818003302/http://weblamp.princeton.edu/~psych/psychology/grad/main/index.php |date=2010-08-18 }}. Retrieved July 30, 2008.</ref> Every year, six doctoral degrees and eight master's degrees are awarded on average.<ref name=autogenerated7>Princeton University Office of the Registrar. (2008). [http://registrar1.princeton.edu/data/dgconf.pdf Princeton University doctoral and masters degrees awarded by academic year] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070612012438/http://registrar1.princeton.edu/data/dgconf.pdf |date=2007-06-12 }}. Retrieved August 5, 2008.</ref> Students in the university's [[Doctor of Medicine|M.D.]]/Ph.D. program, run jointly with the [[Robert Wood Johnson Medical School]] at the [[University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey]], are also able to pursue their doctoral degree in the department.<ref>Hanamirian, J. (2005). [http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/02/22/news/12104.shtml University joins M.D./Ph.D. program] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080928085735/http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/02/22/news/12104.shtml |date=2008-09-28 }}. ''The Daily Princetonian.'' Retrieved July 10, 2008.</ref>

Laboratory units are organized around the research programs of the faculty. These programs range from animal motivation and conditioning processes to [[group decision making|decision making in human social groups]], from [[neurophysiology|neurophysiological mechanisms]] controlling basic drives to [[attribution (psychology)|attributional processes]] in judging other individuals, from the [[Sensation (psychology)|sensory]] and [[Perception|perceptual]] roots of human cognition to [[concept learning|concept formation]] and [[problem solving]] behavior in the child and adult, from the mathematical and computer techniques employed in research to the mechanisms of [[attitude (psychology)|attitude]] formation and [[Attitude change|change]].

[[University and college admissions|Admission]] to the graduate program is highly competitive. The number of applications received by the department has risen steadily from 2003 to 2007 and, consequently, the admission rate has declined accordingly. In 2003, twenty out of 192 applicants were accepted. Though seventeen applicants were admitted to the program in 2007, the applicant pool had almost fifty more applicants than the applicant pool from four years earlier.<ref name=autogenerated8 />

Men are better represented in the department's student body than in the student bodies of most psychology graduate programs in the United States. Women account for about half of the department's graduate student body,<ref name=autogenerated8 /> even though women made up 68 percent of the recipients of doctoral degrees in psychology in 2005.<ref>National Science Foundation. (2008). [https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/pdf/tabf-2.pdf S&E doctoral degrees awarded to women, by field: 1998–2005] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110108164949/https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/pdf/tabf-2.pdf |date=2011-01-08 }}. Retrieved August 5, 2008.</ref>  Gender representation notwithstanding, female graduate students in psychology programs may benefit from same-sex mentors in their departments.<ref>Schlegel, M. (2000). Women mentoring women. ''Monitor on Psychology'', ''31''(10).</ref> Whereas only 33 percent of faculty members in psychology departments in the United States are women,<ref>Nelson, D. J. (2007). [http://cheminfo.chem.ou.edu/~djn/diversity/briefings/Diversity%20Report%20Final.pdf ''A National Analysis of Diversity in Science and Engineering Faculties at Research Universities''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719150412/http://cheminfo.chem.ou.edu/~djn/diversity/briefings/Diversity%20Report%20Final.pdf |date=2011-07-19 }}. Retrieved August 5, 2008.</ref> the Department of Psychology's faculty has a female representation of over 40 percent.<ref>Princeton University Department of Psychology. (2004). [https://weblamp.princeton.edu/~psych/psychology/people/faculty/index.php Faculty] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110301053006/http://weblamp.princeton.edu/~psych/psychology/people/faculty/index.php |date=2011-03-01 }}. Retrieved August 5, 2008.</ref> Additionally, the department is one of two departments at Princeton University that has had women who have served as departmental chairs.<ref>Zakian, V., Draine, B., Ferrand, L., Girgus, J., Lee, R., Paxson, C., et al. (2003). [https://www.princeton.edu/pr/reports/sciencetf/sciencetf-9-19-03.pdf ''Report of the Task Force on the Status of Women Faculty in the Natural Sciences and Engineering at Princeton'']. Retrieved August 5, 2008.</ref>

Nine percent of the department's graduate students are underrepresented [[Minority group|minorities]].<ref name=autogenerated8 /> In contrast, twelve percent of recipients of psychology doctoral degrees in 2005 were [[African Americans]], [[Hispanics]], and [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]].<ref>National Science Foundation. (2008). [https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/pdf/tabf-5.pdf Field distribution of doctorate recipients, by race/ethnicity and citizenship: 2005] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110108165136/https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/pdf/tabf-5.pdf |date=2011-01-08 }}. Retrieved August 5, 2008.</ref> However, the ethnic and racial diversity of the department's students is comparable to the diversity of the student body of the university's Graduate School. Eight percent of the university's graduate students are members of the three aforementioned underrepresented groups.<ref>Trustees of Princeton University, The. (2008). [https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20081031194041/http://www.gradschool.princeton.edu/about/docs/admission/ADM_stats_for_web_5-12-08.pdf Admission statistics at a glance]. Retrieved August 5, 2008.</ref> To reduce minority underrepresentation in graduate school, the department's faculty and graduate students participate in the Princeton Summer Undergraduate Research Experience program, which seeks to encourage students from underrepresented groups to apply to and succeed in graduate school.<ref>Trustees of Princeton University, The. (2008). [http://gradschool.princeton.edu/diversity/recruitment/summer/research_areas/ Princeton Summer Undergraduate Research Experience's research areas] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100905035000/http://gradschool.princeton.edu/diversity/recruitment/summer/research_areas/ |date=2010-09-05 }}. Retrieved August 5, 2008.</ref><ref>Quiñones, E. (2008). [https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S21/75/21A33/index.xml?section=featured Undergraduates chart path toward graduate school] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160413214207/https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S21/75/21A33/index.xml?section=featured |date=2016-04-13 }}. ''News at Princeton''. Retrieved August 5, 2008.</ref>

==== Program in cognitive psychology ====
The department was "a presence in the burgeoning field of cognitive psychology."<ref name=autogenerated9>Stevens, R. (2006). [https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S16/59/54E12/index.xml?section=topstories Ronald Kinchla, longtime professor of psychology, dies]. ''News at Princeton''. Retrieved July 9, 2008.</ref> The research of the cognitive psychology program's faculty spans a wide set of issues within the study of cognitive processes that include cognitive control, memory, judgment and [[decision making]], [[language processing]], [[psychology of reasoning|reasoning]], and visual perception. The highly interdisciplinary quality of these topics of study results in research that is interactive and multifaceted. Most of the research is conducted at the intersection of fields like computer science and neuroscience.

As of 2015, Princeton announced the new Program in Cognitive Science, an interdisciplinary undertaking involving scholars from Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Linguistics, Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Psychology.

====Program in psychology and public policy====
[[File:Green Hall RobertsonHall.jpg|thumb|Robertson Hall, home of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs]]
Run jointly by the university's [[Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs]] and the Department of Psychology, the program was planned with the intent of being a “discipline plus” degree.<ref>Princeton University Department of Psychology. (2004). [https://weblamp.princeton.edu/~psych/psychology/grad/policy/index.php Joint degree program in psychology and social policy] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100712162854/http://weblamp.princeton.edu/~psych/psychology/grad/policy/index.php |date=2010-07-12 }}. Retrieved July 9, 2008.</ref> The growing interest in the incorporation of psychology in [[law schools]] and [[public policy schools]] is another reason why the program was established.<ref>Trustees of Princeton University, The. (2008). [http://weblamp.princeton.edu/jdp/psychology.php Psychology and social policy] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101210215216/http://weblamp.princeton.edu/jdp/psychology.php |date=2010-12-10 }}. Retrieved August 5, 2008.</ref> Such interest is evidenced by the fact that five members of the Department of Psychology's faculty have an additional appointment at the Woodrow Wilson School<ref name=autogenerated1>Trustees of Princeton University, The. (2007). [https://www.princeton.edu/pr/catalog/ua/07/PSY/ Undergraduate Announcement, 2007-2008] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071223011601/http://www.princeton.edu/pr/catalog/ua/07/PSY/ |date=2007-12-23 }}. Retrieved August 3, 2008.</ref> and the fact that the department is one of the sponsors of the [https://www.princeton.edu/~psychpol/ Princeton Graduate Student Conference on Psychology and Policymaking].<ref>Carnes, N. (2008). [https://www.princeton.edu/~psychpol/ Princeton Graduate Student Conference on Psychology and Policymaking]. Retrieved August 6, 2008.</ref>

===Undergraduate===
Undergraduate students can concentrate in Psychology to receive an [[Bachelor of Arts|A.B.]] in the discipline. As part of the degree requirement, they must complete two junior research papers and a senior thesis under the supervision of the department's faculty members.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> Psychology is one of the most popular concentrations on campus. It is one of the seven concentrations that have more than one hundred concentrators<ref name="autogenerated3">{{cite web |author=Stepanov, R. |date=2004 |url=http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2004/03/02/news/9807.shtml |title=Malkiel seeks even more major distribution |work=The Daily Princetonian |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203092150/http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2004/03/02/news/9807.shtml |archive-date=February 3, 2007 |access-date=August 10, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and undergraduate student enrollment in the department continues to rise steadily.<ref>Hamilton, K. (2006). [http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/05/10/news/15585.shtml Small departments see surge in majors] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080928090719/http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/05/10/news/15585.shtml |date=2008-09-28 }}. ''The Daily Princetonian''. Retrieved July 10, 2008.</ref><ref>Blanter, I. (2007). [http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2007/04/26/news/18276.shtml Students choose smaller majors] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080928090310/http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2007/04/26/news/18276.shtml |date=2008-09-28 }}. ''The Daily Princetonian''. Retrieved July 10, 2008.</ref> Every year, the department confers 58 undergraduate degrees on average.<ref name=autogenerated7 />

Additionally, undergraduate students can enroll in the Program in Neuroscience, which encourages the study of molecular, cellular, developmental, and systems neuroscience as it interfaces with cognitive and behavioral research, to earn a Neuroscience Certificate.<ref>Princeton University Department of Psychology. (2004). [http://weblamp.princeton.edu/~psych/psychology/ug/neuroscience/index.php The neuroscience certificate] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100712000105/http://weblamp.princeton.edu/~psych/psychology/ug/neuroscience/index.php |date=2010-07-12 }}. Retrieved July 30, 2008.</ref>

==People==

===Current faculty===

Assistant professors are Rebecca Carey, Erik Nook, and Natalia Vélez<ref name="Psychology. 2020">Princeton University Department of Psychology. (2020). {{cite web |url=https://psych.princeton.edu/people/faculty/all |title=Faculty &#124; Department of Psychology |access-date=2020-07-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621031938/https://psych.princeton.edu/people/faculty/all |archive-date=2020-06-21 }}</ref>

Associate professors are Timothy Buschman, Alin Coman, Molly Crockett, Anuj Shah, Jordan Taylor, and Ilana Witten.<ref name="Psychology. 2020"/>

Full professors are Jonathan Cohen, Joel Cooper, Nathaniel Daw, [[Susan Fiske]], Asif Ghazanfar, Joan Girgus, Adele Goldberg, [[Elizabeth Gould (psychologist)|Elizabeth Gould]], [[Michael Graziano]], Tom Griffiths, Uri Hasson, Sabine Kastner, Casey Lew-Williams, Tania Lombrozo, [[Yael Niv]], Kenneth A. Norman, Kristina Olson, [[Betsy Levy Paluck|Elizabeth Levy Paluck]], Jonathan Pillow, Deborah Prentice, Emily Pronin, [[Eldar Shafir]], Nicole Shelton, Stacey Sinclair, Susan Sugarman, Diana Tamir, and Elke Weber.<ref name="Psychology. 2020"/>

Emeriti professors are Byron Campbell, Ronald Comer, Joan Girgus, Sam Glucksberg, [[Philip Johnson-Laird]], [[Daniel Kahneman]], and Daniel Osherson.<ref>Princeton University Department of Psychology. (2020). {{cite web |url=https://psych.princeton.edu/people/emeritus-faculty |title=Emeritus Faculty &#124; Department of Psychology |access-date=2020-07-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621114358/https://psych.princeton.edu/people/emeritus-faculty |archive-date=2020-06-21 }}</ref>

The Lecturers are Jason Geller, Robin Gomila.<ref name="Psychology. 2020"/>

The Senior Lecturer is Justin Junge.<ref name="Psychology. 2020"/>

===Historic faculty===
*[[James Mark Baldwin|James Baldwin]] (1861–1934), experimental psychologist and [[philosopher]], received an undergraduate degree and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the university.<ref name=autogenerated5>Ballantyne, P. F. (2002). {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20141006081042/http://collegewing.com/early-historians-psychology-texts-1870s-1921/ Early historians of psychology and their texts (1870s-1921)]}}. Retrieved October 2, 2014.</ref> He later accepted the Stuart Chair in Psychology at the department in 1893 and founded the first psychological laboratory in the department.<ref>Green, C. D. [http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Baldwin/murchison.htm Classics in the history of psychology: Autobiography of James Mark Baldwin]. Retrieved July 10, 2008.</ref>
*[[Carl Brigham]] (1890–1943), [[psychometrics|psychometrist]] who chaired the [[College Board]] committee that created the [[Scholastic Aptitude Test]], was an associate professor in the department in 1923.<ref>Facing Today. [http://www.facinghistorycampus.org/Campus/rm.nsf/0/E8556CE77ED9AB8785256FFC005AA018 Carl Brigham's biography]. Retrieved July 28, 2008. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060504091119/http://www.facinghistorycampus.org/Campus/rm.nsf/0/E8556CE77ED9AB8785256FFC005AA018|date=May 4, 2006}}</ref><ref>WGBH Educational Foundation. (2008). [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/sats/where/timeline.html History of the SAT: A timeline]. Retrieved July 28, 2008.</ref>
*[[Hadley Cantril]] (1906–1969), co-author of the classic study on [[selective perception]] in a [[Dartmouth College|Dartmouth]]-Princeton [[American football]] game,<ref>Hastorf, A. H., & Cantril, H. (1954). They saw a game: A case study. ''Journal of Abnormal Psychology'', ''49''(1), 129-134.</ref> joined the department in 1936 and remained a member of the faculty until his death. He also served as chairman of the department.<ref name=leitch>{{cite book|last1=Leitch|first1=Alexander|title=A Princeton Companion|date=2015|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=9781400870011}}</ref>
*[[Leonard Carmichael]] (1898–1973), psychologist, educator, and administrator, became a member of the department's faculty as an instructor of psychology in 1924 and was promoted to assistant professor in 1926.<ref>MSN Encarta. [http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_762508025/Leonard_Carmichael.html Leonard Carmichael's biographical information]. Retrieved July 28, 2008.  {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090822013154/http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_762508025/Leonard_Carmichael.html |date=August 22, 2009 }} {{subscription required}}</ref>
*[[Gustave Gilbert]] (1911–1977), co-author of the second of three [[stereotype]] studies that comprise the Princeton Trilogy,<ref>Gilbert, G. M. (1951). Stereotype persistence and change among college students. ''Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology'', ''46'', 245-254.</ref> jointed the department as a visiting lecturer in [[abnormal psychology]] in 1948.<ref>Class of 1951. (1998). [http://tigernet.princeton.edu/~class51/mar48.html March, 1948]. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060903050158/http://tigernet.princeton.edu/~class51/mar48.html|date=September 3, 2006}}</ref>
*[[Harold Gulliksen]] (1903–1996), psychometrist renowned in part for the development and improvement of an effective screening test for United States Navy gunners during the Second World War, became a professor of psychology at the department after the war.<ref>Burkhart, F. (1996). [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D05EFDD1738F930A35752C1A960958260 Harold Gulliksen, 93, pioneer in testing, dies]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved July 9, 2008.</ref>
*[[Julian Jaynes]] (1920–1997), author of  "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind", lecturer at the Department of Psychology (1966–1990).{{cn|date=February 2024}}
*[[Edward E. Jones|Edward Jones]] (1927–1993), who discovered the [[actor-observer bias]] in collaboration with [[Richard E. Nisbett|Richard Nisbett]],<ref>Jones, E. E., & Nisbett, R. E. (1971.) ''The actor and the observer: Divergent perceptions of the causes of behavior.'' City of New York, NY: General Learning Press.</ref> joined the psychology faculty in 1977 and remained in the department until his death.<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE7DC113EF937A3575BC0A965958260 Dr. Edward E. Jones, social psychologist, 66]. (1993). ''The New York Times''. Retrieved July 11, 2008.</ref> The university's Edward E. Jones Lecture Series were inaugurated in his honor.<ref>Princeton Weekly Bulletin. [https://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/03/0505/8n.shtml Nassau Notes: Graduate alumnus delivers two Jones Lectures in psychology]. Retrieved July 11, 2008.</ref>
*[[Daniel Katz (psychologist)|Daniel Katz]] (1903–1998), co-author of the first of three stereotype studies that comprise the Princeton Trilogy,<ref>Katz, D., & Braly, K. W. (1933). Racial stereotypes of one-hundred college students. ''Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology'', ''28'', 280-290.</ref> was a member of the faculty from 1928 to 1943.<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01E4D91039F93BA25750C0A96E958260 Daniel Katz, 94, professor of psychology]. (1998). ''The New York Times''. Retrieved August 5, 2008.</ref>
*[[Ronald Kinchla]] (1934–2006), quantitative [[psychophysics|psychophysicist]], joined the department as professor of psychology in 1969 and attained emeritus status in 2003. He also served as director of graduate studies for the department and "helped to shape the modern-day psychology department."<ref name=autogenerated9 />
*[[Herbert Langfeld]] (1879–1958) was professor of psychology and director of the Psychology Laboratory. He continued in these positions for the next 23 years. In 1937, he became Stuart Professor of Psychology and chairman of the department. He received emeritus status ten years later.<ref>Bartlett, F. C. (1958). Herbert Sidney Langfeld: 1879-1958. ''The American Journal of Psychology'', ''71''(3), 616-619.</ref> The department's faculty lounge is named after him.<ref name=green />
*[[George Armitage Miller|George A. Miller]] (1920–2012), the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Psychology (1979–2012), one of the founders and most influential members of the cognitive psychology field and author of "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for Processing Information", (1956), The Psychological Review.
*[[Silvan Tomkins]] (1911–1991), one of the most influential theorists of twentieth-century psychology,<ref>Springer Publishing Company. (2005). [http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=4408x ''Affect Imagery Consciousness'': Author biographies]. Retrieved July 10, 2008. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080210202053/http://www.springerpub.com/prod.aspx?prod_id=4408x|date=February 10, 2008}}</ref> had a teaching and research appointment in the department from 1947 until his retirement in 1975.<ref>Silvan S. Tomkins Institute. [http://www.tomkins.org/pressroom/history.aspx History and organization of the Silvan S. Tomkins Institute]. Retrieved July 10, 2008.  {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091213102741/http://www.tomkins.org/pressroom/history.aspx |date=December 13, 2009 }}</ref><ref>Cook, J. (1991). [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE6DF1330F937A25755C0A967958260 Silvan Tomkins, 80, psychologist who cited power of emotion, dies]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved July 10, 2008.</ref>
*[[Howard C Warren|Howard Warren]] (1867–1934) was Stuart Professor of Psychology and chair of the department from 1903 until 1931.<ref name=autogenerated5 /> He was a graduate of the university and "devoted his entire professional life so untiringly to that institution that his name is indelibly associated with Eno Hall and Princeton psychology."<ref>Langfeld, H. S. (1934). Howard Crosby Warren: 1867-1934. ''The American Journal of Psychology'', ''46''(2), 340-342.</ref>
*[[Ernest Wever]] (1902–1991), experimental psychologist who specialized in [[Hearing (sense)|audition]], joined the department in 1927 at the invitation of Langfeld.<ref>[http://www.nap.edu/html/biomems/ewever.html Vernon, J. Ernest Wever's biographical sketch]. Retrieved July 29, 2008. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010526212454/http://www.nap.edu/html/biomems/ewever.html|date=May 26, 2001}}</ref> He was named Dorman T. Warren Professor, a position that he occupied from 1946 to 1950, and Eugene Higgins Professor, a position that he occupied from 1950 to 1971. From 1955 to 1958, he served as chair of the department.<ref>Lin, T. [http://www.ling.fju.edu.tw/hearing/historical%20review1930-1.htm Biographical sketches of Ernest Wever and Charles Bray]. Retrieved July 10, 2008.</ref>

===Alumni in academic/research institutions and industry===
Unless otherwise noted, a date indicates the year in which a Ph.D. was conferred.
*[[Robert P. Abelson|Robert Abelson]] 1953, social psychologist and political scientist.<ref>Roseman, I. J., & Read, S. J. (2005). In memoriam: Robert P. Abelson. ''Psychological Science Agenda'', ''19''(8), 7-12.</ref>
*[[Alan Baddeley]] 1957 ([[Master of Arts|M.A.]]), professor of psychology at [[University of York]].<ref>University of York. (2007). [http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/psych/www/people/biogs/ab50.html Alan Baddeley's faculty profile] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100427015716/http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/psych/www/people/biogs/ab50.html |date=2010-04-27 }}. Retrieved August 4, 2008.</ref>
*[[Daniel Batson|Dan Batson]] 1972, professor emeritus of psychology at [[University of Kansas]].<ref>University of Kansas. [http://www.psych.ku.edu/psych_people/faculty_Daniel_Batson.shtml Dan Batson's faculty profile] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719225428/http://www.psych.ku.edu/psych_people/faculty_Daniel_Batson.shtml |date=2011-07-19 }}. Retrieved August 6, 2008.</ref>
*[[Roy Baumeister]] 1978, professor of psychology, [[Francis W. Eppes|Francis Eppes]] Eminent Scholar, and social area director at [[Florida State University]].<ref>Florida State University. (2007). [http://www.psy.fsu.edu/faculty/baumeister.dp.html Roy Baumeister's faculty profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610203641/http://www.psy.fsu.edu/faculty/baumeister.dp.html |date=2015-06-10 }}. Retrieved August 6, 2008.</ref>
*[[Russell H. Fazio|Russell Fazio]] 1978, Harold E. Burtt Professor of Psychology at [[Ohio State University]].<ref>Fazio, R. (2008). [http://faculty.psy.ohio-state.edu/fazio/fazio/size2/page.htm Curriculum vitae] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720023946/http://faculty.psy.ohio-state.edu/fazio/fazio/size2/page.htm |date=2011-07-20 }}. Retrieved August 10, 2008.</ref>
*[[Michael Friendly]] 1972, professor of psychology at [[York University]].<ref>York University. (2006). [http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/friendly.html Graduate program: History and theory of psychology program area]. Retrieved August 3, 2008.</ref>
*[[J. J. Gibson|James Gibson]], 1925 ([[Bachelor of Science|B.S.]]) '28, perception psychologist and philosopher.<ref>Hochberg, J. (1994). ''James Jerome Gibson, 1904-1979: A biographical memoir.'' Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences.</ref>
*[[Daniel Gilbert (psychologist)|Daniel Gilbert]] 1985, [[Harvard College]] Professor of Psychology at Harvard University.<ref>Gilbert, D. (2008). [http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dtg/gilbert.htm Curriculum vitae] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110603104653/http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dtg/gilbert.htm |date=2011-06-03 }}. Retrieved August 10, 2008.</ref>
*[[Linda E. Ginzel]] 1989, Clinical Professor of Managerial Psychology, The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.chicagobooth.edu/faculty/directory/g/linda-e-ginzel#biography | title=Linda E. Ginzel }}</ref>
*[[Stevan Harnad]] 1991,  [[Canada Research Chair]] in [[Cognitive Sciences]] at [[Université du Québec à Montréal]] (UQAM) and Professor in the [[School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton]].<ref>University of Southampton. (2007). [http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/harnad Stevan Harnad's faculty profile]. Retrieved August 3, 2008.</ref>
*[[Mara Mather]] 2000, Professor of Gerontology and Psychology at [[University of Southern California]].<ref>Mather, M. (2008). [http://www.usc.edu/projects/matherlab/cv.html Curriculum vitae] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604110038/http://www.usc.edu/projects/matherlab/cv.html |date=2011-06-04 }}. Retrieved August 6, 2008.</ref>
*[[Earl K. Miller]] 1990, Picower Professor of Neuroscience, The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20160214105123/https://earlkmiller.org/earl-miller/ {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref>
*[[Tirin Moore]] 1995, Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute<ref>http://tirinmoorelab.weebly.com {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref>
*[[Harold Schlosberg]] 1928, experimental psychologist.<ref>Brown University Library. (1993). [http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=S0060 Harold Schlosberg's biographical sketch]. Retrieved August 19, 2008.</ref>

==Equipment and facilities==
[[File:Green Hall fMRI.jpg|thumb|right|fMRI scanner in the basement of Green Hall]]
The department is closely affiliated with the [http://www.csbmb.princeton.edu/ Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior (CSBMB)], which fosters research on the neural underpinnings of psychological function. The CSBMB houses facilities for the study of [[brain function]], including a research-dedicated, high-field [[fMRI]] scanner, an [[EEG]] laboratory, a [[transcranial magnetic stimulation|TMS]] coil, an [[eye tracking]] laboratory, and high-performance computing facilities for data analysis and computational modeling.<ref>Trustees of Princeton University, The. (2008). [http://www.csbmb.princeton.edu/CSBMB/html/facilities.shtml Facilities of the Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior]. Retrieved July 10, 2008.</ref> Seventeen faculty members from the department are affiliated with the CSBMB.<ref>Trustees of Princeton University, The. (2008). [http://www.csbmb.princeton.edu/CSBMB/html/personnel.shtml Personnel of the Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior]. Retrieved July 10, 2008.</ref> Unique among research institutions that own and operate fMRI scanners, the CSBMB is the first facility to own a scanner that is run solely by neuroscientists that conduct [[basic research]]. Most scanners in the United States are located in clinical settings and are utilized primarily in [[applied research]].<ref name=autogenerated11 />

When the university unveiled its $1.75 billion capital campaign in 2007, it allocated $300 million to build a {{convert|240000|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} headquarters for the department on a site of about {{convert|98|acre|m2}}.<ref name="dailyprincetonian.com">Narain, C. (2009). [http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/02/10/22693/ Budget cuts delay neuroscience building]. ''The Daily Princetonian''. Retrieved March 9, 2009.</ref> The new psychology building, Peretsman-Scully Hall opened in December, 2013.  It is in the shape of a half-circle cylinder, and consists of five floors above general ground level and one floor below ground level.<ref>Lack, K. (2008). [http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2008/05/02/21130/ Psychology building to replace Lot 20]. ''The Daily Princetonian''. Retrieved July 9, 2008.</ref> The department shares this space with the [[Princeton Neuroscience Institute]]. The complex houses state-of-the-art labs, faculty offices, and classrooms in an attempt to push the university to the forefront of neuroscience and behavioral science research.<ref>Liemer, R. (2006). [http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/09/14/news/15760.shtml Famed architect Moneo to design neuroscience building] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080928090253/http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/09/14/news/15760.shtml |date=2008-09-28 }}. ''The Daily Princetonian''. Retrieved July 9, 2008.</ref>

==Psychology Library==

In 1963, the department moved to Green Hall; a room located next to the lobby in the first floor served as the department's [[academic library]]. In 1968, two more rooms were added to house [[monographs]] and journal stacks. In 1990, the third journal room was moved into the basement to accommodate compact shelving. The Psychology Library, a branch of [[Princeton University Library]], underwent significant renovations in 2002. The basement room was no longer used because the library gained a Reading Room, which has become a popular study space for psychology concentrators. A ramp that leads to the second room was built to ease the reshelving of materials. A librarian's office was built next to one of the computer clusters.

As of 2006, the Psychology Library contains a large collection of material.<ref>Chaikin, M. (2006). [http://psychlib.princeton.edu/history.htm History of the psychology library: Princeton University] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100614220042/http://psychlib.princeton.edu/history.htm |date=2010-06-14 }}. Retrieved July 31, 2008.</ref> The library's collections was moved to Lewis Library with the completion of Peretsman-Scully Hall.<ref>Lack, K., & Eshleman, D. (2008). [http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2008/09/lewis-library-makes-a-grand-debut/ Lewis Library makes a grand debut]. ''The Daily Princetonian''. Retrieved December 16, 2017.</ref>

== See also ==
* [[History of psychology]]

== References ==
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