Social Psychology

The social psychology graduate training program focuses on both basic and applied research in social and personality psychology, with an emphasis on developing research skills through course work, research experience with area and adjunct faculty members, field research, and interdisciplinary research opportunities. Research areas include social cognition, emotion, subjective well-being, personality and social behavior, attitude formation and change, culture, intergroup relations, social psychology and law, political psychology, decision-making and health behavior, stress and coping, dyadic social interaction and strategic social communication, prosocial action and citizen participation, and interpersonal relationships.

Core Faculty
Ellen Berscheid, Regents' Professor
Eugene Borgida, Professor
Christopher M. Federico, Assistant Professor
Patricia Frazier, Professor
Marti Hope Gonzales, Associate Professor
Traci Mann, Associate Professor
Alexander Rothman, Associate Professor
Jeffry A. Simpson, Professor and Area Director
Mark Snyder, McKnight Presidential Chair

Affiliated Faculty
E. Gil Clary, College of St. Catherine
W. Andrew Collins, Institute of Child Development
Barbara Loken, Carlson School of Management
Geoffrey Maruyama, Educational Psychology
Joanne Miller, Political Science
John Sullivan, Political Science

Affiliated Research Centers/Groups
Center for the Study of the Individual and Society
Center for the Study of Political Psychology
Doctoral Minor in Interpersonal Relationships (IREL)