We have a strong Psychology Department here at Mount Saint Vincent University, consisting of 9 full-time faculty members, a laboratory technician, a secretary, and a number of part-time instructors. Our department is committed to a personalized education with easy access to faculty advising, opportunities to participate in ongoing research projects and individualized honours supervision.
While the department's specialty is Developmental Psychology, the research carried out here is, in fact, quite diverse. Some of the research that is presently ongoing concerns vocal, visual and olfactory communication in wild and captive wolves; eyewitness memory for emotional scenes; development of peripheral vision in normal children and in children with strabismus; development of attention across the lifespan and individuals with attention deficit disorder; the associations among maternal and paternal emotional parenting styles, children's regulation, and aggression, anxiety, and prosocial behaviour in childhood; and the associations between meteorology (i.e., weather) and children's emotions and behaviours.