Research axes

Psychology is the study of human behaviour and the cognitive, affective, social and cultural processes which underlie it and can make it develop, as well as their links with institutions and systems.

Psychology studies human behaviour per se and does so using methods which favour the individual level. Nevertheless, whether it be cognitive or affective, individual or collective, normal or pathological, behaviour takes place within the framework of social relationships, organisational and institutional structures which contribute to shaping it and giving it meaning and which are studied for this reason.

Research in psychology therefore interacts with a variety of disciplines such as biology, physiology, logic, linguistics, neuroscience and cognitive science in general but also with philosophy, sociology, anthropology, organisation theory or economics. It aims specifically to integrate these different elements and levels of description in order to describe, model, explain, predict or alter behaviour.

The Institute of Psychological Sciences is positioned within the field of human sciences, the members of the Institute use various approaches, essentially collective, comprehensive or interpretative ones.