Program Overview

Developmental Psychology at the University of Washington offers research training and instruction leading to a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology. The primary goal of this program is to train individuals who will become independent research scientists. Faculty members in this program are active in a broad range of research areas with major emphases in infancy, including visual, cognitive, and social-emotional development, childhood, emphasizing social cognition and moral development, and the biological bases of development, including primate development and developmental psychobiology.

The Developmental Psychology program is closely tied in with other areas in the Psychology Department that relate to developmental issues, such as Cognitive, Social, and Child Clinical. It is also associated with a number of excellent departments and centers on campus that have faculty working on developmental topics, including the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, School of Education, School of Nursing, the Information School, the Center for Mind, Brain, and Learning, the Center on Human Development and Disability, the Autism Research Center, and the Washington National Primate Research Center.