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

• Shira Gabriel (Ph.D., Northwestern University): Social self, gender differences in interdependence, minority group membership.
  
• 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.
  
• 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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