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The Grinnell College Psychology Department thrives in the science division of the
college, a source of natural science methods that we employ to learn from and
learn about biological organisms living self-consciously in a social habitat.
The psychology faculty are part of the community of learners in our department.
We endeavor to find the general in the particular - in social psychology, cognitive
psychology, developmental psychology, physiological psychology, abnormal
psychology and behavioral psychology - and to find unity in our pluralistic discipline.
Along the way, we encourage students to investigate the particulars. We call these
investigations labs, independent studies and internships.
Psychology students are difficult to characterize. Our environment seems to select
for variability. Some follow the curriculum like a map to goals of differentiated success
in clinical psychology, experimental psychology, neuroscience, education, medicine
and law. Others pursue their curriculum by broadly sampling our offerings to reveal
emergent goals. We try to empower all these students with liberal arts values and
to create conditions that set the occasion for the release of a variety of personal
achievements and the pleasure that comes from learning.
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