ACP Graduate Programs
This list was generated through requests of SARMAC members to identify their programs in Applied Cognitive Psychology. This list may not necessarily be exhaustive. Applied Cognitive Psychology can be studied with faculty members at other institutions that do not specifically have a graduate program in Applied Cognitive Psychology, but do have individual faculty members with research interests in this area.Australian National University in Canberra
Program: Masters, PhD
Contact: Marie Carroll
Description: The program is not taught by coursework, only by research towards the PhD. The main areas of interest are: visual cognition, memory and metamemory, face recognition, and dyslexia.
Website: www.anu.edu.au (search School of Psychology on the homepage)
Brock University
Program: Masters, PhD (Psychology), MSC (Marketing, Faculty of Business)
Contact: Antonia Mantonakis (Kronlund), PhD
Description: Applications are invited from students wishing to pursue postgraduate studies in Consumer Psychology (cognitive issues involved in brand name recognition, consumer preference, and consumer choice). Research will be carried out under the supervision of Dr. Antonia Mantonakis.
Website: http://spartan.ac.brocku.ca/~consumercognitio/
Catholic University of America
Program: Master's, PhD (Applied Experimental Psychology)
Contact: Deborah M. Clawson, Associate Professor
Description: The Ph.D. program in Applied Experimental Psychology offers advanced training in applied-experimental psychology and applied-cognitive science to prepare individuals for career opportunities in industry, government, and universities. The program strongly emphasizes research skills and the examination of research questions related to real-world practical problems related to applied memory, cognitive aging, cognitive neuropsychology. The M.A. Program in General Psychology provides a broad overview of theoretical issues in several areas of psychology and serves as good preparation for doctoral work in psychology.
Website: http://psychology.cua.edu/graduate/
Claremont Graduate University
Program: Masters, PhD
Description: The program in Applied Cognitive Psychology seeks students committed to conducting a strong program of cognitive research on important contemporary issues. All students are actively involved in research throughout their graduate studies. Typically, students focus on one of four sub-areas within cognitive psychology: Cognitive Aging, Eyewitness Memory, Critical Thinking & Perception, and Human Performance.
Website: http://www.cgu.edu/pages/489.asp
Flinders University (Adelaide, South Australia)
Program: PhD (Eyewitness Memory Area)
Contact: Neil Brewer
Description: At Flinders University (Adelaide, South Australia), you can do a PhD in the eyewitness memory area with advisers Neil Brewer and/or Nathan Weber. For information on what's been going on in our lab, go to: http://www.ssn.flinders.edu.au/psyc/staff/NeilBrewer/index.php
Scholarship information from: http://www.flinders.edu.au/scholarships/default.cfm
Website: http://www.ssn.flinders.edu.au/psyc/staff/NeilBrewer/index.php
Florida International University
Program: PhD in Legal Psychology (a branch of Applied Cognitive Psychology)
Contact: Ron Fisher, Program Director
Description: Our areas of specialty are applied cognitive psychology (eyewitness memory; detecting deception) and applied social psychology (jury decision-making). We also offer a joint program with the Law School at Florida International University (JD-MS).
Website: http://www.fiu.edu/~psylaw/
John Jay College CUNY
Program: Master's and PhD
Contact: Steven Penrod
Description: John Jay College--CUNY has several groups of researchers whose work on eyewitnesses, juries and the use of scientific evidence addresses applied cognitive issues in forensic settings.
Website: http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~spenrod/ExperGroup/JJAppliedCog.htm
Kansas State University
Program: PhD
Contact: Richard Jackson Harris
Description: The Cognitive/Human Factors Psychology Graduate Program at Kansas State University is designed to prepare students for careers as psychologists in industry, government, and academia. The program provides students with a broad background in the research methodology used in experimental as well as many other areas of psychology. The students are expected to acquire a general knowledge of the research problems and practices of current experimental psychologists in their chosen area. Current active research areas include judgment and decision making, visual perception, and psycholinguistics. We hope to hire someone in Human Factors in the 2008-09 school year. An internship in an applied setting is highly recommended for students interested in human factors.
Website: www.k-state.edu/psych/graduate/graduate_chf.htm
London South Bank University
Program: MSc Investigative Forensic Psychology
Contact: Rachel Wilcox
Description: This MSc provides students with a thorough theoretical and applied knowledge of the psychological issues and research related to the investigation of crime and the courtroom. During the course students will be introduced to topics such as: interviewing suspects and witnesses, detecting deception and the problem of suggestibility; factors that affect accuracy in police line-ups; offender profiling and decision making during investigative and legal processes. In addition issues surrounding vulnerable witnesses and suspects will be investigated and the role of expert witnesses will be explained and reviewed.
Website: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/psycho/courses/msc-forensic.shtml
Louisiana State University
Program: PhD (Cognitive Developmental Psychology)
Contact: Sean Lane
Description: Louisiana State University's Ph.D. program in Cognitive/Developmental Psychology offers training in basic and applied approaches to the field, including opportunities in our Office of Applied Cognition and the Life Course and Aging Center. We have a particular strength in learning and memory, a low student to faculty ratio, and former students are currently employed in a wide variety of academic and industry settings.
Website: http://www.lsu.edu/psychology/graduate/cog&Dev.html
University of Adelaide
Program: Master of Psychology Organizational and Human Factors, PhD
Contact: Carolyn Semmler
Description: The master's program provides practical skills and theoretical knowledge relevant to optimizing the design of work systems. The PhD program provides opportunities for Higher Degrees by Research (HDR) in a wide range of fields relevant to Applied Cognitive Psychology, including human cognition and decision-making, individual differences in abilities and personally, psychotherapy, neuropsychology, health psychology, social psychology, and organizational psychology.
Websites: Master's Program:
http://www.adelaide.edu.au/psychology/programs/post/mohf/
PhD Program: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/psychology/programs/post/phd
University of Arkansas
Program: PhD (Experimental Psychology)
Contact: Bill Levine
Description: Our PhD program focuses on social and cognitive processes and covers topics in traditional social, cognitive, and developmental areas of psychology. Faculty in the focus area conduct research on a broad range of topics, both basic and applied, including: psychology and law, autobiographical memory and self-concept, false memories, social dilemmas, helping behavior, language development and comprehension, and coping behaviors.
Website: http://www.uark.edu/depts/psyc/experimental.htm
University of Colorado, Boulder
Program: PhD
Contact: Alice Healy
Description: CU has a PhD program, during the course of which students earn an MA; students who are interested in interdisciplinary work may also earn a graduate certificate in cognitive science or one in neuroscience, and they may earn a joint PhD in Psychology and Cognitive Science or one in Psychology and Neuroscience; some research in applied cognitive psychology is done under the auspices of the Center for Research on Training (http://psych.colorado.edu/~ahealy/CRTFrame3.htm)
Website: http://psych.colorado.edu/~cognitive/
The University of Leicester (UK)
Program: Master's, PhD
Contact: Cara Laney, PhD, Lecturer of Forensic Psychology
Description: The University of Leicester (UK) has four masters degree courses in forensic psychology (including three distance learning degree courses) covering areas including eyewitness memory, treatment of offenders (including a special focus on sex offenders), risk assessment, criminological theory, juvenile delinquency, forensic research methods, and much more. We also encourage applications from students wishing to undertake PhD research.
Website: http://www.le.ac.uk/pc/cap/forensic/
The University of Memphis
Program: Cognitive Science Program Master's, PhD
Contact: Danielle McNamara, PhD
Description: This program emphasizes both the theoretical understanding of cognitive processes and the application of principles of cognitive science to real world problems. Major emphases include general cognition, language and discourse, and learning technologies.
Website: http://www.psyc.memphis.edu/research/cognitive/cognitive.shtml
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Program: The Law and Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
Contact: Robert F. Belli, PhD
Description: unique study opportunities in applied cognitive psychology including jury decision-making, eyewitness identification and memory, autobiographical memory, legal decision making (e.g., applications of the rational actor in public policy), cognitive ergonomics of auditory and visual data displays, and the role of cognition in survey responses. The Law and Psychology program offers joint degree programs in psychology and law (Ph.D./J.D. and Ph.D./MLS); the Cognitive program offers a Ph.D. degree in psychology. The researchers working in these areas are Richard Wiener (Ph.D. MLS), Robert Belli (Ph.D.), Brian Bornstein (Ph.D. MLS), John Flowers (Ph.D.) and Cynthia Willis Esqueda (Ph.D.)
Website: http://www.unl.edu/psypage/grad/programs.shtml
University of North Dakota
Program: General/Experimental Psychology
Contact: Ric Ferrraro, PhD
Description: We currently have 9 faculty studying topics including aging, memory, neuropsychology, animal behavior, gambling, social psychology, learning disabilities, forensic psychology, psychology and law, conflict resolution, and educational psychology, among other areas. We currently have 7 students ensuring a low faculty:student ratio.
Website: www.und.edu then navigate to "Psychology"
The University of Texas at El Paso
Program: PhD (General Psychology)
Contact: Harmon M. Hosch, Associate Dean
Description: The University of Texas at El Paso offers the PhD in General Psychology with foci in legal psychology and in cognition. Specific research domains of interest to individuals in applied cognition include: interrogation processes and false confessions, suggestibility in children and adults, pedagogic applications of cognitive science, eyewitness memory, the neuropsychology of memory and attitudes, information processing by bilingual and by monolingual language speakers, and the effects of using interpreters in forensic and military settings.
Website: http://academics.utep.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=6423
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