https://www.lit.osaka-cu.ac.jp/psy/
The Graduate School of Human Sciences offers a master’s program and a doctoral program in Psychology, with a maximum enrollment of four and two students, respectively. The Psychology course aims to train researchers in the fundamental fields of psychology and create individuals with a high level of expertise who will be able to address the various problems facing contemporary society from a psychological perspective. We aim to achieve this through education and research supervision rooted in experimental psychology in the specialized fields of behavior and physiology, cognition and development, and society and culture. Hence, we have devised systems for education and research that emphasize empirical scientific methodologies; students are able to study and research various topics ranging from foundational to applied psychology in all fields, except for clinical psychology. The course is also fully equipped with laboratories and a broad range of experimental equipment.
The Psychology course provides education and research supervision rooted in experimental psychology in the specialized fields of behavior and physiology, cognition and development, and society and culture.
The cornerstone of the master’s program is a general psychology class “Advanced Studies in Fundamental Topics in Psychology” and its related seminars, as well as a methodological class “Advanced Studies in Experimental Psychology” and its related seminars. Students also take “Research on Special Topics in Psychology I, II, III, and IV” and its related seminars or enroll for elective classes from those offered by the Sociology, Education, and Geography courses. Students also take two classes from “Research in Human Behavioral Sciences I, II, III, and IV,” which are classes shared with the Department of Human Behavioral Sciences. In addition, students must take the “Supervision of Master’s Thesis” module for the purpose of writing their master’s thesis and receiving guidance from their supervisor in this regard. Students in the doctoral program are required to take the “Thesis Guidance” module implemented by their supervisor, thus receiving specific guidance from their supervisor for writing their doctoral thesis.
Staff
| Professor Hiroshi Yama | Professor Hiroshi Yama is concerned with cognitive psychology, reasoning, explicit and implicit thought, and comparative cultural research. |
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| Professor Kouichi Kawabe | Associate Professor Kouichi Kawabe is concerned with physiological psychology, namely, behavioral pharmacology research on the neural mechanisms of learning and memory and animal models of psychiatric disorders |
| Associate Professor Daisuke Saeki | Associate Professor Daisuke Saeki is concerned with behavioral analysis, namely, judgment, decision-making, choices. |
| Associate Professor Hirohumi Hashimoto | Social psychology: group dynamics, altruistic behavior within groups, cultural differences of the mind |