University of Cambridge - Department of Psychology

At the University of Cambridge, the Department of Psychology offers diverse programs and cutting-edge research in various psychological fields. The department is dedicated to improving mental health, cognition, and understanding human behavior. The study of psychology has been organised in various forms in Cambridge for over a century. In 1897 William H.R. Rivers was appointed University Lecturer in Physiological and Experimental Psychology. A proposal for the establishment of a psychophysics laboratory had been put forward as early as the 1870s by James Ward, but it was not until 1912 that a purpose-built Psychological Laboratory was opened on the Downing Site in the centre of Cambridge. Research and teaching in experimental psychology has continued in the Psychological Laboratory to the present day.