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(Note: Newark campus professors do not conduct research in all of these areas.)

Clinical Psychology: "Evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of psychological disorders, including more or less severe behavioral and emotional problems" (Barker, 2002).

Cognitive Psychology: "Information processing, memory, thinking, problem solving, language, and creativity" (Barker, 2002).

Comparitive Psychology: "Comparison of human and non-human animal behavior, cognition, and brain-behavior relationships" (Barker, 2002).

Counseling Psychology: "Interviewing, testing, and therapy for individuals, families, and couples with cognitive, behavioral, and emotional disorders" (Barker, 2002).

Developmental Psychology: "Psychological development during infancy, childhood, adulthood, and old age" (Barker, 2002).

Educational & School Psychology: "Evaluation of cognitive processes of school children, including reading and mathematics; of teaching methods; and of curriculum development and special education" (Barker, 2002).

Experimental Psychology: "Integration and teaching of research in sensation, perception, learning, motivation, emotion and physiological psychology" (Barker, 2002).

Health Psychology:  "The study of the relationship between one's lifestyle, thoughts, and emotions and one's physical health." (Barker, 2002).

Industrial/Organizational Psychology: "Organizational structure, personal evaluation, management, and human resources in buisness and government organizations" (Barker, 2002).

Personality Psychology: "Personality assessment and individual differences, including test construction for measurement of emotion, intelligence, and so forth" (Barker, 2002).

Neurosciences & Physiological Psychology: "Biological underpinnings of behavior, including evolutionary/genetic considerations; brain-behavior relationships; drugs & behavior" (Barker, 2002).

Quantitative Psychology: "Measurement of psychological variables; test construction and evaluation; experimental design; statistical analysis of data" (Barker, 2002).

Social Psychology: "Interpersonal behavior, attitude formation, prejudice, group attraction and sexual behavior" (Barker, 2002).

 

Barker, L.M. (2002). Psychology (1st ed.). New Jersey: Prentice Hall.