Research regarded as a process aiming to assimilate new realities and knowledge has a long history in the UC Psychology School (EPUC).

Currently, EPUC academics generate research projects with internal university funds and with external national and international funds.

The postgraduate academics make EPUC one of the most important centers of psychological research in Chile.

With different epistemological approaches and research methods, EPUC is a privileged place in Latin America for the production of knowledge.

It is from EPUC and its research team that the School of Psychology generate all their graduate programs, inviting you to learn and develop research, to upgrade training in psychology and to be part of a community of professionals and high level researchers.

The EPUC research areas cover almost the entire field of contemporary psychology and include, among others:

Neuroscience and Cognitive Psychology
This area is dedicated to topics such as neurophysiological correlates of consciousness and language development, metaphor and symbolic language, as well as individual differences in intelligence.

The ongoing research projects cover topics such as neurophysiological correlates of consciousness and the acquisition of language. Moreover, and in conjunction with the social area, they investigate sociocognitive and neurophysiological correlates of social phenomena such as prejudice.

Social Community Psychology
The social community area addresses issues such as understanding and analysis of the interdependence processes, social influence and social cognition, prejudice and intergroup conflict and collective memory processes. Also, they investigate issues such as micro-social processes that bring people together in organizations, neighborhoods, communities and other social contexts.

Among the research topics that are currently developed in this area, we find: changes in Chilean political culture, development and civic engagement of youth, changes in social stereotypes, immigration to Chile and collective memory processes. Also, program evaluations are being carried from the perspective of the target community.

Developmental Psychology
Within this area you will investigate topics such as language development and cognitive skills of premature babies and infants, promoting secure attachment in infants and greater autonomy predictors in adolescence.

Educational Psychology
In this area we are investigating issues related to the consequences of educational technology, primarily in children with special educational needs, inclusion of pupils with special educational needs in higher education, talent education and literacy and learning in adult subjects.

Other themes like emotional development in school, values in education, and school environment are developed, as well as topics related to school management, including strategic planning, effective schools, the family-school relationship and teacher assessment.

Occupational and Organizational Psychology
This area covers topics such as organizational behavior, work stress, organizational justice, organizational culture and organizational climate.

Currently research work is developed in the area around the conflicts between family and work and the development of behavioral assessment tools and organizational climate.

Health Psychology
The area of health psychology focuses on psychological and psychosocial aspects involved in the process of health / disease, both at individual, familiar and social levels as well as in the collective health aspect.

Current research fields are focused in the relationship between social capital and health, depression treatment in primary health care, developing tools for detecting high-risk families in health and AIDS prevention in Chile.

Clinical Psychology
Central themes for the clinical area of research are: change processes in psychotherapy, in particular, the analysis of the therapeutic interaction, in verbal and nonverbal aspects and their relationship with the therapeutic effect.

Currently, the investigations are focusing primarily on the change processes facilitators in psychotherapy, such as the therapeutic interaction, the therapeutic alliance and the expression of emotions. It also examines the effectiveness of family systemic interventions in drug abuse.

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• Educational Psychology Research Area *
• Epistemological Psychology Research Area *
• Community Psychology Research Area *
• Health Psychology Research Area *
• Occupational and Organizational Psychology Research Area *
• Social Psychology Research Area *

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