梅森（Mason）心理学专业的一项特殊优势是，可以将学位集中在以下领域的前沿学科之一：应用发展心理学，认知和行为神经科学，人为因素/应用认知以及行业/组织心理学。我们发现，与心理学专业的硕士学位相比，集中度更高的学位最能使我们的学生进入职业或攻读博士学位。心理学专业的教师在政策，政府，政府，和研究社区。学院是心理学主要期刊的编辑，在领先的国家组织中均设有办事处，并因其研究和教学质量而获得无数奖项。如果需要的话，您将有机会与导师一对一地进行感兴趣的研究。本集中精力研究行为的生物底物。核心和附属学院的研究领域
A particular strength of the MA in psychology at Mason is the opportunity to focus your degree on one of these cutting-edge subdisciplines in the field: applied developmental psychology, cognitive and behavioral neuroscience, human factors/applied cognition, and industrial/organizational psychology. We find that a degree with a concentration, rather than a general MA degree in psychology, best launches our students into careers or further study at the doctoral level.Faculty in the psychology program are well published, funded, and connected in policy, government, and research communities. Faculty are editors of major journals in psychology, hold offices in leading national organizations, and have won numerous awards for the quality of their research and teaching. You will have the opportunity to work one-on-one with faculty mentors on research of interest if desired.This concentration focuses on studying biological substrates of behavior. Core and affiliated faculty study areas as diverse as neural control of behavioral development, brain systems in substance abuse, animal models of learning and memory and their disorders (such as Alzheimer's), human brain systems involved in cognition, perception, human error, decision making, and movement, the relation of neural activity to human performance, and cognitive aging. A focus of the program is on translational neuroscience-complementary study of neural systems in humans and animals, including application of animal research to human behavior. Prospective students should review each faculty member's webpage for more information.