Our School of Psychology at Te Herenga Waka is now in the top 100 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
Times Higher Education has announced it's list of the World University Rankings of Psychology in 2021.
The human mind presents some of science’s greatest challenges, and an understanding of behaviour is key to solving some of humanity’s most pressing problems. Join the School of Psychology to understand human nature and explain both the strange and everyday behaviour you see around you.
We are the recognised number one School of Psychology in New Zealand in terms of research quality and output, and you will be taught by our academic staff, each of whom works at the forefront in their respective area.
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Study Psychology to understand behaviour—how we think, feel, and act—and how those processes can go wrong. Learn how our biology and our environment interact to make us who we are.
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- Psychology
- Clinical Psychology
- Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience
- Cross-Cultural Psychology
- Forensic Psychology
Colloquium Series
The School of Psychology hosts speakers from universities around the globe. Join us for coffee and bagels while listening to the latest research from these esteemed academics.
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Research
We are the number one School of Psychology in New Zealand for research quality and output.
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Postgraduate study
Join a research community where postgraduate students are junior colleagues who collaborate with active scholars across all fields of psychology.
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Using a new behaviour tracking method, Anne Macaskill and colleagues show how tuataras’ behaviour changes during contact with visitors compared to time outside of visitor contact in a zoo.
Many zoos provide the opportunity for visitors to interact with ambassador animals in their collections, but little is known about how these interactions impact on the animals themselves. The current study was the first to examine the effect of visitor interactions on the reptile species, Tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus).
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Nichola Tyler and colleague have published an article pointing out the content that criminal lawyers are exposed to through their work as vicarious trauma and suggesting support from the NZ criminal justice system
Criminal lawyers are regularly exposed to trauma — how can NZ’s justice system look after them better?
Upcoming events
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Colloquium Series: Seeing faces - The patterns that make a face in the human visual system
Dr Colin Palmer of the University of New South WalesWill speak onSeeing faces: The patterns…