
Department Research Labs
Behavioral Health Research Group
We seek to better understand substance misuse and other health-compromising behaviors, and to develop novel approaches to address negative health outcomes.
Contact Dr. Yi:
KU Behavioral Science Laboratory
Research in our lab uses computational modeling to investigate within the realm of behavioral economics and cognitive science.
Contact Dr. Pleskac:
BRANCH Lab (Aging Lab)
The mission of our lab is to promote healthy lifestyles as people age. Our research projects and community outreach are centered on ways to increase physical activity and reduce risk of disease and cognitive decline that may occur with advancing age.
Contact Dr. Watts:
CARE Lab
Our mission is to improve the way eating disorders are assessed, diagnosed, and treated through cutting edge methods and research.
Contact Dr. Forbush:
Close Relationships Interest Group
The main goal of CRIG is to develop a community that concentrates expertise and resources relevant to the study of close relationships here at KU (and in its surrounding area).
Contact Dr. Gillath:
Cognitive-Clinical Lab
Our research focuses mainly on the cognitive causes, correlates, and origins of depression. Understanding anxiety-linked processes has also been the aim of some of our research.
Contact Dr. Ingram:
Culture and Psychology Research Group
The Culture and Psychology Research Group is a community of scholars and researchers who are broadly interested in the idea of “mind in context”
Contact Dr. Adams:
Hamilton Health Lab
The lab focuses on research related to sleep, chronic pain, and other health behaviors in college students and adults.
Contact Dr. Hamilton:
Health Behavior and Technology Lab
Our lab conducts research on topics at the intersection of addiction, obesity, and eating disorders. Specifically, our work is focused on reinforcement processes that drive reward-seeking behaviors, which may present risks to long term health.
Contact Dr. Fazzino:
LEMMA Lab
Inspired by perspectives in experimental existential psychology, we study how deep-seated existential concerns fuel people's efforts to make meaningful sense of the social world and their own lives.
Contact Dr. Landau:
Memory and Development Lab (MADlab)
We conduct research on how memory and cognitive development in children, adolescents and adults.
Contact Dr. Greenhoot:
Sexuality Research Lab
This lab focuses on sexuality. Research topics include sexual consent, sexual coercion, ambivalence about sex, the meanings that people assign to sexual activity, etc. We welcome undergraduates who want to help with these studies.
Contact Dr. Muehlenhard:
Spoken Language Laboratory
In the Spoken Language Laboratory (SLL) we examine how information pertaining to words is stored in memory and how the organization of those words in memory enables us to access that information so quickly and accurately.
Contact Dr. Vitevitch:
Stereotyping and Social Judgment Lab
This lab's research points to the complex ways that stereotypes affect social judgment, and suggests that individual targets of judgments may sometimes receive contradictory feedback.
Contact Dr. Biernat:
Therapeutic Lifestyle Change (TLC)
Contact Dr. Ilardi: