The Department of Psychology at Bowdoin examines contemporary perspectives on principles of human behavior in areas ranging from cognition, development, and behavioral neuroscience to interpersonal relations and psychopathology.
We help students explore and understand the nature of the individual human experience by examining how the mind works; how culture and the environment interact with the individual; and how we can understand ourselves, others, and social interactions. Students learn how to ask productive questions in the study of human behavior, and how to find and evaluate answers systematically using the appropriate methodology and data analytic techniques. Psychology majors use a variety of empirical approaches, including surveys, assessments, computer-based models and simulations, theory, and experimental manipulations to study individual human behavior.
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