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

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.

*Please note: Online applications will be available for the Fall 2009 semester for the Social-Personality Psychology PhD Program on August 1, 2008.