Social-Personality Psychology PhD Program
Sandra Murray, Ph.D.
Social Area Head
Program Highlights
- A strong, productive, and collegial group of researchers
- Leading research in fundamental areas of social psychology, including:
- Close Relationships
- Self-concept and self-esteem
- Personal and social identity
- Social inference
- Motivated cognition
- Stereotyping and prejudice
- Exceptionally strong research emphasis
- Students are encouraged to work with one or more faculty members
- Students involved in research from first semester on
- Excellent laboratory facilities
- Large research participant pool
- Social interaction laboratories
- Computer assisted data collection laboratories
- State of the art audiovisual recording systems
Program Faculty
Faculty who may be accepting graduate students for the upcoming academic year are indicated by an asterisk (*).
- *Shira Gabriel (Ph.D., Northwestern University): Social self, attachment style and social comparison, need to belong.
- *Sandra Murray (Ph.D., University of Waterloo): Close relationships; self-esteem; and motivated cognition.
- *Lora Park (Ph.D., University of Michigan): The self, self-esteem, contingencies of self-worth, motivation, interpersonal processes. .
- *Brett Pelham (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin): Self-perception; implicit self-regard, social inference.
- *Michael Poulin (Ph.D., University of California, Irvine): Prosocial motivation; meaning; physical and psychological adjustment to stress and trauma.
- *Gretchen Sechrist (Ph. D., University of Maryland): Stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination.
- *Mark Seery (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara): Stress and coping, the self, motivation, psychophysiology.
An Overview of the Program
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*Please note: Online applications will be available for the Fall 2009 semester for the Social-Personality Psychology PhD Program on August 1, 2008.