Differential Psychology/Behavior Genetics
Differential psychology/behavior genetics deals with the nature, development, and assessment of individual differences. The focus is on how and why people differ. It incorporates the study of cognitive abilities, personality, behavioral genetics, psychological interests, values, social attitudes, and expressive behavior. The program helps provide individuals with the skills they need for a research and/or teaching career in the behavioral sciences through advanced study, relevant research, and teaching experiences. As a student in differential psychology/behavior genetics, you will work closely with one of the program faculty. The Differential Psychology/Behavior Genetics Program prepares you for a research career in academic and nonacademic settings. Often our students combine these goals by choosing careers that offer both teaching and research opportunities. To support this research focus, we require that students complete research leading to the M.A. degree along the way to the Ph.D. This requirement reflects the importance of developing research methodology and substantive content expertise in this program. We accept students with a variety of undergraduate backgrounds—an undergraduate major in psychology is not a requirement of our program. We do recommend completion of undergraduate courses in individual differences, psychological measurement, developmental psychology, physiological psychology, and statistics. Course work in biology, genetics, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and computing is viewed favorably.
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