Overview
Thematic areas of concentration that cut across faculty members and students in the SPH area include interpersonal relations, close relationships, and social networks; the self, identity, understanding, and belief; social cognition and social norms; antecedents and consequences of personality; scale development for social psychological and personality constructs; health behaviors including alcohol and substance use; disease risk and longevity; self-regulation and motivation; and sociocultural contexts and adverse experiences.
Features
- The Social Psychology degree at University of Houston area also has a strong focus on advanced quantitative methods including item response theory and psychometrics; structural equation and multilevel modeling; macro- and micro-longitudinal analyses; language analysis; and other data science techniques.
Programme Structure
Curriculum:
- The social, personality, and health psychology curriculum is directed at developing student strengths in quantitative methods and theoretical, conceptual, and biological perspectives that are central to advanced training in social, personality, and health psychology.
- Students in the program participate in active research programs under the mentorship of various members of the psychology faculty, but they are also encouraged to engage in self-initiated research endeavors.
- There is also opportunity for inter-disciplinary research, allowing for a breadth of research experiences.
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 48 months
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Social Psychology View 9 other PhDs in Social Psychology in United StatesAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
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Other requirements
General requirements
- A completed graduate studies application. The University of Houston is switching to a new graduate application system. Please click the following link to access the application starting August 1st: Psychology Graduate Program Application
- An official transcript from each institution attended.
- One official copy of your general GRE test scores*. Please have your GRE scores sent by ETS (Educational Testing Service) to the University of Houston, University Park Campus (Code: 6870). The Department of Psychology will only accept official GRE scores sent from ETS.
- Three letters of recommendation.
- A career statement, please include two faculty members with whom you wish to work during your graduate school process.
- A $50.00 non-refundable processing fee is due at the time of your application submission. Fee must be paid online via CollegeNet.
Tuition Fee
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