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The 2018-2020 picture for The University of Texas at Austin Department of Psychology is a 40-PI network with 26 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Psychology as the leading field (33% of slots across 27 PIs; 27 labels), Cognitive Neuroscience as the leading subfield (16% of slots across 15 PIs; 15 labels), and Memory and Neural Mechanisms as the leading topic (5% of slots across 6 PIs; 6 labels). This is a solid, readable collaboration map: group-level fit matters more than a single department-wide label. The top weighted PIs are Cindy M. Meston (17.1 weighted works; Sexual function and dysfunction studies, Child Abuse and Trauma). The strongest pairings are K. Paige Harden and Elliot M. Tucker–Drob (19 shared works, weight 9.6). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 9 PIs, 10 internal connections, weight 7.2, around Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, led by Michael J. Telch, David S. Yeager, F. Gonzalez‐Lima.