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Psychology

Psychology majors at Northeastern University create paths specific to their interests while obtaining a strong foundation in research and practice through a flexible curriculum and many experiential opportunities.

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The Department of Psychology offers a variety of degree programs at the undergraduate level and a Ph.D. program at the graduate level. Our programs provide insight into the interdisciplinary study of mind, brain, and behavior, with broad applications to such fields as health and medicine, education, business, public and social services, and law.

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Northeastern alumna Jesse Greif applies the skills he learned as a psychology major at Northeastern to his work at an innovative AI-based Wall Street startup.

AI’s Next Frontier: Stock Trading

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Undergraduate Clinical Psychology" detailing Samantha's experience learning group therapy methods as a teaching assistant for an undergraduate seminar.

Don’t Go Wasting Your Emotion: Using Group Therapy to Teach

Samantha Goldman's experience leading group therapy taught her more than any textbook ever could. It also lead to her co-authoring a paper in the Spring 2019 volume of the Eastern…
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A child illuminates hundreds of shoes at a memorial for those killed by Hurricane Maria, in front of the Puerto Rico Capitol, in San Juan, Friday, June 1, 2018. Puerto Rico's Institute of Statistics announced that it has sued the U.S. territory's health department and demographic registry seeking to obtain data on the number of deaths following Hurricane Maria as a growing number of critics accuse the government of lacking transparency. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Here’s the Secret to Unlocking Our Compassion in the Face of Mass Suffering

David DeSteno and Daniel Lim found that people are more likely to feel compassion in the face of mass suffering if they believe they can make a difference. Compassion, it…
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08/06/19 - BOSTON, MA. - Student Kieran McVeigh demonstrates how headphones are used for Psyche Loui and Ajay Satpute’s research on the relationship between musical anhedonia and autism spectrum disorders in the Biomedical Imaging Center in the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex on August 06, 2019. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

What People Who Don’t like Music Might Tell Us about Social Interaction

Northeastern professors Ajay Satpute and Psyche Loui are studying the link between music and social interaction. They're asking whether the brain phenomenon that makes music undesirable to five percent of…
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