The discipline of psychology provides students with the opportunity to develop an understanding of behavior and experience from a variety of theoretical perspectives. The psychology faculty specializes in a wide variety of psychological topics including general, social and organizational psychology. Courses of general interest to undergraduate and doctoral students in the related fields are regularly offered with a pragmatic approach on developing research skills and understanding human behavior in daily life; enhancing relationships, well-being, businesses and their career.
Psychology Lab: This is a growing resource for those intending to study human behavior, adjustment, relationship, emotion, motivation and cognition. It has a large set of more than 100 tests and facilities to conduct psychological profiling, personality testing and various measurements related to stress, intelligence, child development and organizational psycho-diagnostics. Various qualitative and quantitative software such as NVivo, SPSS, E-PRIME, AMOS, MPlus are actively used by researchers in the department. We are also in the process of developing measurement facilities for psycho-physiological and cognitive measurement.
Broad areas of research: Social psychology, Orgnizational behavior
- How do people think and behave with others around?
- What are we learning about workplace productivity, challenges and solutions?
- How does culture influence judicial process and legal actors ?
- How students form judgement about their learning?
- What personality and cognitive factors influence knowledge and information seeking behaviours in students?
Programmes
PhD in Psychology
Faculty
Renu Rastogi, Emeritus Fellow
Organizational Behavior Human resource management, Workplace Spirituality,Women Studies
Pooja Garg, Associate Professor
Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Positive Psychology
Ram Manohar Singh, Assistant Professor
Cultural Psychology, Social Psychology, Social Cognition, Intersubjectivity
Ongoing Research Projects
Understanding local court culture and its effect on judicial performance
Investigator: Ram Manohar Singh , Funding agency: IIT Roorkee
Research Scholars
| Name | Interests | Supervised by |
|---|---|---|
| Khyati Kapil | R. Rastogi | |
| Hiranmayakaparthi R. | R. Rastogi | |
| Kannupriya | P. Garg | |
| Sunita Tiwari | P. Garg | |
| Ashwini Kumar | Laterality, Handedness, Information processing | R.M. Singh |
| Deepshikha Paliwal | Personal Epistemology, Meta-cognition, Medical Decision Making | R.M. Singh |
| Sweta Roy | Values, Career Motivation, Family Life Cycle Stage, Military Psychology | R.M. Singh |
| Mrunali H. Damania | Legal Culture, Motivated Cognition | R.M. Singh |
| Ritesh Kumar | Self, Close Relationship, Marriage | R.M. Singh |
| Shidganesh A. Shastri | Personality, Military Psychology | R.M. Singh |