Research in the School of Psychology takes place within the context of Travis Research Institute (TRI) named after Dr. Lee Edward Travis, the school’s founding Dean, brilliant pioneering experimental physiological psychologist, speech pathologist and clinical psychologist. TRI is the embodiment of Travis’ legacy of empirical research and scholarship in psychology today.

TRI is committed to fostering interdisciplinary research into the relationships between social systems, environmental situations, personality, mental and affective states, cognitive processes, neurobiological functions, and spiritual and religious states and practices. A letter from the Director of Research, Dr. Warren S. Brown, and the TRI 2008 Report can be accessed from the side bar.

The institute is organized into several Research Centers, constituting the major foci of large-scale collaborative ongoing work. Centers involve both empirical and theoretical scholarship.

An important role of TRI is the establishment and maintenance of a research infrastructure that encourages large-scale collaborative research and facilitates obtaining research funding for the various projects. More specific research topics and projects within TRI are: