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Grad Program
Major/Minor in Psychology
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Courses

All Psychology Courses

Psychology Annual Schedule

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Research Areas

The UC Davis Department of Psychology contains five major "areas": Biological Psychology, Developmental, Perception-Cognition, Quantitative and Social-Personality. Boundaries between the areas are fluid, and students are encouraged to take seminars in all five.

Biological Psychology
Developmental Psychology
Perception, Cognition and Cognitive Neurscience
Quantitative Psychology
Social and Personality Psychology

Latest News

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Professor Simona Ghetti Elected Fellow of AAAS

  • by Camelia E Hostinar
 

Professor Simona Ghetti is among eight faculty from UC Davis newly elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) as of March 27, 2025. 

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Professor Steve Luck Receives UC Davis Prize

  • by Camelia E Hostinar

(by Alex Russell, College of Letters and Science)

 

How the brain remembers has a lot to do with focus. It’s in this area of cognitive science that Steven Luck, professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis, has built a career pushing the frontiers of both science and teaching.

Rankings

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Ranked 11th best Graduate Program in Cognitive Psychology and 9th best in Developmental Psychology

number 12

Ranked 12th Best Psychology Program in North America

 

18 and 24

Ranked 18th best Psychology Graduate Program in the United States, and 24th best in the World

Featured Faculty Ariel Mosley

Assistant Professor, Ariel Mosley, named 2022-23 CAMPSSAH Scholar

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