The Department of Psychology at the National Taiwan University, founded in 1949, was the first established psychology department in Taiwan. The department has a strong scientific orientation, which means that psychology here is conducted as a science and taught as a science. Training is provided at both the undergraduate and graduate (M.S./PhD.) levels.

The undergraduate curriculum consists of a 4-year-program that balances theoretical training with practical applications of psychology. Students majoring in psychology are required to complete courses in scientific methodology and fundamental topics in the field. In addition, they are encouraged to pursue their own area of interest in psychology in their senior years.

Our graduate program provides training in the following areas.
(1) The Clinical Psychology program offers research and clinical training in general clinical psychology, health psychology, clinical neuropsychology and clinical child psychology.
(2) The Experimental and Cognitive Psychology program concentrates on research in vision, attention, causal reasoning, memory, the dissociation of conscious and unconscious processes, and other higher cognitive functions.
(3) The Personality and Social Psychology program is characterized by its indigenous approach with the objective to understand Chinese psychology in its social, cultural, and historical context.
(4) The current interests of the faculty in the Developmental Psychology program, include concept development, Chinese children’s language development, early socio-emotional development, and parent-child relationship.
(5) The major focus of the Psychobiology program is the investigation of neural mechanisms underlying affective and mental process. Specific research topics include the memory mechanism for coding emotion experience in the brain, neural plasticity related to addictive behavior, and the roles of limbic structures and the cerebral cortex in expression of recent and remote memory.
(6) Faculty members in the Industrial/Organizational program study indigenous characteristics of Chinese enterprises in various research areas. These include motivation, leadership organizational culture, inter-organizational relationship, customer satisfaction, and the impact of relationships in dyadic interaction and networking with emphasis on loyalty, commitment and trust.
(7) The Psychometrics program focuses on the research and application of measurement methods to the scientific study of human behavior and the construction of psychological tests for various institutions in the country.

Our department houses research labs with state of the art equipment. These include a neonate to adult EEG/ERP system, a Transcranial Magnetic Stimulator capable of rapid and single-pulse stimulation, four-field T- scope, vision and perception equipment, eye tracking system, image processing analyzer, human physiology monitoring system, stereotaxic instrument, neurophysiology equipment, HPLC with electrochemical detector, in vivo microdialysis equipment, microscope, computer-controlled operant conditioning system and startle system, and sensorimotor response assessment systems. We also have close access to two 3 Tesla MRI scanners, located in the department of Electrical Engineering (Bruker) and National Taiwan University Hospital (Seimens Trio), respectively. These scanners are equipped with fMRI capabilities for studying brain functions, and Diffusion Spectrum Imaging (DSI) for studying structural connectivity. Interdisciplinary research collaborations are highly encouraged.

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E-mail: psych@ntu.edu.tw
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