The main directions of research led by the workers of the Psychology Institute are as follows:

• Influence of critical events on human functioning and development.
• Longitudinal investigations over children's, their parents' and grandparents' development carried out in Bydgoszcz.
• Early cognitive competence of infants.
• Automatically controlled strategies of solving the cognitive problems (individual research).
• Changes of young people's personality (in the period of early adulthood) resulting from the concept of self-authority personality;
• The analysis of the past of people who are Self- Authors.
• A method of personality investigation : POA ( the Measurement of Author Personality).
• Subliminal perception.
• Handicapped people's life situation.
• Children, as well as adult, development disorders and family functioning.
• Development support. Psychostimulation and psychocorrection.
• The quality of life of people with diseases of extrapyramidal system before and after ablation.