Department of Psychology

As a contemporary science and applied profession, psychology represents a rational and systematic attempt to understand human behavior by studying the processes of development, perception, learning, motivation and thinking, and the relationship of  these processes both to the physiological and social functioning of humans and animals. It also is involved in measuring psychological dimensions in the attempt to validate its many theories.

The Psychology Department at Colorado State University is home to five graduate programs and a NIOSH funded Occupational Health Psychology Training Program. Our graduate programs are Applied Social, Cognitive, Counseling, Perceptual and Brain Sciences (formerly Behavioral Neuroscience), and Industrial \ Organizational. We are currently located in the Clark Building at Colorado State University, but will be moving in 2010 to the Academic Instruction Building. Please visit this page for construction updates. Our dedicated faculty and staff support approximately 1100 undergraduate psychology majors.

Our department code can be viewed here.

Graduate Students Marc Richard and Will Szlemko passed from our lives in 2008. They will not be forgotten, and it is through memorial funds that we offer others a chance to remember them as well. Donate to Memorial Funds in memory of Marc Richard and Will Szlemko

The psychology department is home to the Psychological Services Center. The Psychological Services Center offers therapy and assessment services to the Fort Collins area.

Information specific to our professors can be found on our Faculty and Staff in Psychology website .

Research Centers

Institute of Applied Prevention Research - The primary mission of the Institute of Applied Prevention Research (IAPR) is to enhance interdisciplinary research related to prevention of illnesses, injuries, and social problems, to reduce adverse consequences and health disparities through the development and application of culturally sensitive prevention theories and methods.

The Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention research is administratively located within the Department of Psychology and College of Natural Science at Colorado State University.

CICRC - The Colorado Injury Control Research Center

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