Research
Psychology at the University of Toronto Mississauga is an experimental science within the life sciences, focusing on the understanding of behaviour. Our faculty complement includes scientists in the areas of social, personality, developmental, and abnormal psychology, as well as cognition, perception, language, and neuroscience. The research conducted in our laboratories adopts many analytic approaches to the study of behaviour and includes the study of both humans and animals.
Our mission is to promote the understanding of animal and human behaviour, with particular focus on how individuals communicate with one another, how they adjust to their environments and circumstances, and the underlying influences of physiology and genes on these processes. Different questions are addressed at different analytic levels by our three research clusters:
