The Franklin College psychology program is designed to expose students to the breadth of the discipline. Courses span social, abnormal, neuroscience and experimental psychology and provide students with opportunities to explore areas of interest like drugs and the brain, personality, diversity and lifespan development. In addition to coursework, psychology students design and execute undergraduate research from start to finish, working with professors to craft a sound and viable study, collecting data and analyzing findings for public presentation. Previous majors have researched:
- Correlations between prosocial video game play and real-world behavior
- The influence of pop-up advertisements on reading comprehension
- The influence of weightism on empathy for sexual assault survivors
Students’ classroom and research experiences take place under the guidance of a diverse departmental faculty whose cumulative expertise spans counseling, diversity, research and statistics, social and behavioral neuroscience, health and cognitive psychology.
