The graduate program on Experimental Psychology has been receiving the highest classification, 7, from the national graduate evaluation agency – CAPES – since 2001. In 2013, our program was awarded the  “Enduring Programmatic Contribution for the Development of Behavior Analysis 2013”, from the Association for Behavior Analysis International. Research areas available for the development of graduate work in our program are: Behavior Analysis, Animal Behavior and Human Ethology, Sensation, Perception & Cognition and Theoretical and Methodological Problems in Psychological Research.

As a graduate school we work in a context of multidisciplinary integration and aim to: 

•develop research and human resources in order to establish high-level investigations, both experimental and theoretical, in the field of psychological science;

•form qualified academic professionals for teaching and research all over the country and abroad, so that knowledge and practices (or practical solutions) can be put to use in the solving of social and regional problems; 

•play an important role in the formation of the psychologist by promoting the participation of students in systematically supervised investigations and analyses in all of our research areas as means for reaching a reflexive scientific attitude.