Faculty of Psychology

Faculty introduction

Fostering people to carry out scientific research into the human mind based on psychology, and thereby contribute to society.

With “research the mind and support the person” as our educational principle, we aim to cultivate people with the abilities to explore and put into practice what is needed to solve the issues that people encounter in today’s society through teaching them about the mechanisms of the mind, scientific analysis methods, and so on. In the Department of Psychology, students learn the methodology needed to understand scientifically the way the mind works through a rich variety of experiments and practical seminars, in addition to wide-ranging lectures and seminars held with small groups. In the Department of Education and Child Development, students increase their abilities to understand, support, and solve the problems of children through learning specialized subjects in each course, through experiential learning at elementary schools, and through learning about education and child development, a field that fuses psychology, pedagogy, and disability science.

Hiromichi Mito, Dean, Faculty of Psychology