Social Psychology

All students in the Social Psychology program must fulfill the departmental common graduate curriculum, including courses, research requirements and mentored teaching experiences.

The following requirements are in addition to the graduate curriculum required of all graduate students.

Social Psychology Area Requirements

1.  Students must take PSYC 40600: Proseminar in Social Psychology (an overview of social psychology) or Foundations of Social Psychology (Instructor: Nick Epley) at Booth Graduate School of Business. 

2.  Students must attend the weekly social psychology talk series (PSYC 44600: Topics in Social Psychology) each quarter, and must present their research once a year.

3. At least 3 seminars (in addition to PSYC 40600) in social psychology.

4. A comprehensive exam or theoretical review paper before the beginning of the third year. The choice of whether to do the comprehensive exam or the theoretical paper should be made with the student's advisor. Students must notify the faculty by the start of spring quarter of their second year which option they will pursue.

• If you choose the comprehensive exam, you will be provided a reading list by the end of your second year. You will take the exam in August or September of the end of the second year.
• If you choose the theoretical review paper option, you must write and submit to your adviser and a reader a theoretical review paper. This review should be a publishable article, suitable for a journal such as Psychological Bulletin or Personality and Social Psychology Review and will help in formulating the dissertation. Students will do a presentation of the theoretical review paper in the social psychology talk series by the end of their third year.

6. By the spring of the fourth year students should have proposed their dissertation. See instructions for forming this committee and proposing one’s dissertation here.