Laboratories in the Psychology Department and at the Medical School allow faculty and student researchers access to state-of-the-art methodologies for the study of psychological phenomena. The department offices and research laboratories are housed in a 105,000 square foot building that also contains spacious seminar rooms and teaching laboratories. Individual research laboratories support ongoing investigations of aging, cognition, memory, learning, decision making, social motivation, personality, health, psychophysiology, hypnosis, attention, hearing, and neuropsychology. These laboratories contain modern computer and audio-visual equipment.

The department employs technical support staff for special programming and equipment needs. The department also maintains human subject pools with several thousand research participants, both college-aged and older adults.

Research laboratories outside the department provide additional resources for research training and collaboration. These include the Knight Alzheimer’ Disease Research Center, the Center for Health Behavior Research, the Interdisciplinary Program in Movement Science, the Program in Physical Therapy, and the Central Institute for the Deaf. Additional collaborative arrangements exist with members of the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology in the Medical School, and the program in Neuroscience. Several department members participate in the multidisciplinary Philosophy, Neuroscience, Psychology ("PNP") program, the Neuroscience program, and the Cognitive, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience Pathway, which all provide additional opportunities for study.

The department maintains a Psychological Services Center (directed by Raquel Cabral, Ph.D) which provides training opportunities for students in the clinical program.