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Research ProgramsOur faculty are committed to scholarship and the creation of new and important knowledge about the world we live in. Faculty and students in the Psychology Department are actively engaged in programs of research that deal with a diverse array of topics. The following concentrations represent content areas in which the interests of multiple faculty overlap. These areas also serve as a focus for graduate training at the master's level and for the Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology. For more details about the scholarly interests and professional publications of our faculty please refer to the faculty information pages. Behavior Analysis Behavior AnalysisBehavior Analysis is the science that emphasizes environmental control of the behavior of the individual organism. The Psychology Department has several active researchers with complimentary interests in behavior analysis. UWM Psychology faculty study the fundamental relations between an organism's behavior environmental events as well as techniques to apply these basic findings to a variety of situations in which a change in behavior is desired. Current research projects include the study of choice behavior in pigeons, the development of aquatic models of instrumental learning, investigations of response distribution under varying schedules of reinforcement, verbal fluency training, and the use of behavior analytic techniques to treat tic disorders. The department offers a master's level specialization in behavior analysis as well as training leading to the Ph.D. Behavior analysis lab Links
Health Psychology
Health Psychology focuses on the scientific relationships between behavioral variables on the one hand and physical health and illness on the other. In addition to programs of study leading to the master's and Ph.D which focus on this topic, our department has a large number of faculty actively engaged in research in this area. Health Psychology faculty and students work together on projects focused on gender and health, cancer prevention and health education, reproductive health and STD prevention, the effects of stress and mechanisms of coping with it, child abuse prevention, alcohol abuse, and smoking. Health Psychology research is conducted in the laboratory as well as in clinical settings and many of the faculty have strong ties to the Milwaukee community. Health Psychology lab links Return to the TopNeuroscience
Neuroscience research at UWM involves students and faculty from several departments as well as psychology. The work being done in the Psychology Department is aimed at understanding the relationships between the functions of the nervous system and behavior/cognition. Faculty use a wide range of techniques with laboratory animals and human subjects study these issues. Some of the current topics being investigated by psychology faculty include: neural changes following complex motor skill learning, mapping human brain areas involved in memory and emotion with magnetic resonance imaging, interactions between endogenous dopamine and drugs of abuse, characterization of novel antipsychotic compounds, effects of exercise on cerebral blood flow, the role of opioids and other peptides in pain and analgesia, development of aquatic models of drug abuse, and the neural systems analysis of Pavlovian conditioning and defensive behavior. Neuroscience research and training is currently supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health as well as private foundations. Neuroscience lab links
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