The Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences has been investigating the most fundamental questions of behavior, mind, and brain since 1883, when the first psychological laboratory in America was founded at Johns Hopkins University.
Our PhD program emphasizes training and experience in the research methods essential to the development of new knowledge.
Each faculty member has a state-of-the-art laboratory for research.
The undergraduate program provides students with a sound background in psychological and brain sciences.
Dr. Krupenye received an Early Career Contribution to Psychology award for his work in animal learning and behavior. Read the official announcement on the American Psychological Association’s website. The Early […]
Assistant Professor Chris Krupenye and his collaborator Laura Lewis were recently featured in National Geographic for their work on how bonobos and chimpanzees remember fellow animals. Check out their paper […]
When Johns Hopkins researchers asked hundreds of people to watch other people shake boxes, it took just seconds for almost all of them to figure out what the shaking was […]