Departments
Structure of the Institute
Institute of Psychology of the University of Szeged, Hungary, is located at the Szeged University Campus of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. The Institute of Psychology in Szeged is the longest-standing psychology institute in Hungary (founded in 1929) which also provides a three-year-long Psychology Bachelor of Arts (BA) training in English. To read more about our history, click here.
Head of the Institute: prof. Dr. Mihaly Racsmany
There are three departments at the Institute:
- The department’s research profile encompasses the diverse fields of cognitive science and neuropsychology. The main research topics are: Visual categorization, face perception, perceptual and motor learning, implicit learning, effects of sleep and sleep deprivation, cognitive functions in various neurodegenerative diseases (multiple sclerosis, neglect, stroke) and developmental disorders, affordance perception in object use, theoretical and historical issues of cognitive science from the point of view of ecological psychology and „embodiment” approaches.
Head of Department: prof. Dr. Mihaly Racsmany
Related research in the department includes the psychology of healing, body representations, phenomenology of suffering and loss, primary and secondary traumatization, psychobiography and creativity, as well as the psychology of art. Several of the faculty members of the department also carry out practical activities in the fields of patient care and health and lifestyle counseling.
Head of Department: prof. Dr. Tamas Martos
Social Psychology is a branch of psychology dealing principally with the influence of the current or imagined presence of others on individuals, or the interaction between the individual and his/her social environment. The discipline also researches and analyses the effect of the society on the individual. Important fields of research include individual and collective (social) identity, stereotypes, prejudices, attribution, conformity, etc. Developmental Psychology deals with the development of mental, psychic and bodily functions of humans, researching and analyzing the general physical, intellectual, emotional, social and personality changes which humans go through from birth until death. Research findings in Developmental Psychology are utilized by several other fields, such as Educational Psychology, Child Psychopathology, or Psychoanalysis. Among the areas of research in this field are the cognitive development of children, the formation and development of memory, emotional development, etc.
Head of Department: Dr. Eva Szabo
