The goal of the doctoral concentration in social psychology is to train individuals for a variety of academic and applied settings. Research emphases within the concentration include social influence through various media, affect and motivation, social cognition, social-clinical interface, gender, social-emotional development, preventive health, and program evaluation.

The social psychology concentration consists of 4 core faculty in the Department of Psychology (Philip Gable, Rosanna Guadagno, Jim Hamilton, and Will Hart). Affiliated faculty are from the Institute for Social Science Research (Debra McCallum, Joan Barth) and the Department of Psychology (Steven Prentice-Dunn). All of the faculty listed above work with graduate students and all except Steve Prentice-Dunn are currently accepting students.

Ample research opportunities exist for students in the social psychology concentration. In addition, all students complete a supervised practicum in the Teaching of Psychology, one component of which is full responsibility for a course in Introduction to Psychology (PY 101). Students also have the opportunity to teach undergraduate Social Psychology (PY 372) and other undergraduate courses. 

The deadline for applying to the graduate program is December 15 for admission for the following fall.

Meet our Students

News

Three students joined our program for Fall 2011. Alex Burton comes to us from Eastern Kentucky University and works with Will Hart. John Adams, M.A. (George Washington University, UMass Dartmouth) also trains with Will Hart. David Adams, a graduate of Murray State University, works with Philip Gable. Welcome to UA Alex, John, and David.

Congratulations to our recent PhDs: Dr. Jamie O'Mally, Dr. Brad Okdie, and Dr. Cassie Eno. Jamie is a Research Professor at Mississippi State University's Rehabilitation, Research, and Training Center on Blindness and Low Vision. Brad Okdie is Assistant Professor at Ohio State University-Newark. Cassie Eno is Assistnat Professor and Department Chair at Waldorf College.

Please send updates and corrections for the social psychology pages to Steve Prentice-Dunn (sprentic@bama.ua.edu).

Resources

Contemporary Issues in Social Psychology (http://psychology.ua.edu/css/SocialCI_001.html). Schedule for the weekly seminar for UA faculty and graduate students.

Social Psychology Network (http://socialpsychology.org). Links to over 5,000 psychology-related sites. Additional information may be found on the subject areas of social psychology, as well as journals, electronic forums, teaching resources, and professional profiles of individual social psychologists.

Society for Personality and Social Psychology (http://www.spsp.org/). The largest organization of social and personality psychologists, with over 7,000 members worldwide.

University of Alabama Institutional Review Board (http://osp.ua.edu/site/irb.html). Provides instructions and forms for completing a request for approval of a research project as well as links to online training courses protection of human research participants.

Institute for Social Science Research (http://www.as.ua.edu/issr/). UA's interdisciplinary organization for promoting research in the social sciences. Also provides opportunities for graduate training in social science research.

UA Graduate School's Student Guide to Preparing Theses and Dissertations (http://www.graduate.ua.edu/etd/manual/index.html). Contains information on elements and stylistic requirements.

Questionnaires in Social-Personality Psychology (http://www.webpages.ttu.edu/areifman/qic.htm). Compiled by Alan Reifman.

Stat-Help.com (http://www.stat-help.com/). Links to notes on different types of statistical analyses, helpful statistics sites, and calculation spreadsheets. 

Research Randomizer (http://www.randomizer.org). Designed to assist researchers and students who want an easy way to perform random sampling or assign participants to experimental conditions.

RefWorks (http://refworks.ua.edu). Web-based tool designed to help researchers manage and share information and generate citations and bibliographies. For users of programs like EndNote, RefWorks will be familiar, but with the advantages that it is accessible (24/7) from anywhere with no software to install.  There are links to the tutorials and for on-campus and off-campus access, as well as pointers to support options.