Students then focus on preferred aspects of the field.
The program is designed to encourage the development of quantitative skills and a theoretical background suitable for research. The goal of the program is to prepare students for careers in research and university teaching. Social psychology concerns itself with the effects of other people on the individual as well as with interaction between persons. The program consists of the content areas of history and systems, social cognition, formation and change of attitudes, interpersonal processes, influence processes between individuals and groups, decision making, culture, emotion, industrial psychology, legal psychology, political psychology, health psychology, organizational studies, social justice, and small group interaction. Personality psychology is concerned with the ways individuals perceive, act upon, and understand their respective worlds as they seek to establish adaptive life modes.