Department of Psychology

Welcome from the Chair

Welcome to the UMBC Department of Psychology Department Website. We are glad you decided to drop by electronically. If you are interested in why people, groups, organizations, systems, and cultures think, feel, and act the way they do, you should consider joining us as we seek answers through classes, research, and community engagement that spans the smallest individual neuron to the largest community networks.

Anne Brodsky Professor and Chair

From UMBC News and Magazine

Graduating students share how unexpected paths and community support got them to where they needed to be

Avi Newman, who is graduating from UMBC this spring, knows all too well about learning to navigate unexpected detours beyond his control. Managing the compounding effects of COVID-19, meant...

Posted: May 16, 2023, 10:37 AM

UMBC’s 2023 commencement speakers represent the best of higher education

This year’s UMBC commencement speakers represent the best of what higher education strives to be, applying insights to meet the needs of humanity. Commencement speakers Keith T. Elder,...

Posted: May 16, 2023, 10:32 AM

Mentors help students grow their research skills, from fieldwork in Puerto Rico to labs at UMBC

It’s 4 a.m. in Puerto Rico, and Ellie Bare’s alarm is going off. Within an hour, she and her research colleagues are driving to their forested field site on the north side of the island to record...

Posted: May 15, 2023, 11:40 AM