The Rutgers Social Psychology Ph.D. Program prepares students for careers as researchers and teachers in both academic and nonacademic settings.
Students work closely with faculty members on research projects of mutual interest.
Rutgers has a large social psychology faculty and an extremely favorable ratio of fewer than two graduate students per professor. Social Psychology faculty members use a wide variety of state of the art research methods, including the latest computer based procedures for assessing unconscious beliefs and attitudes, sophisticated computer algorithms for uncovering and displaying personal identity and other cognitive structures, and structural equation modeling of naturalistic and laboratory data. One focus of research at Rutgers involves inter relations among self, interpersonal relations, and inter group processes. The Rutgers Social Psychology Program sponsors the Rutgers Series on Self and Social Identity, a symposium plus book series held approximately every other year. Much of the Social Psychology Area, including faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates, typically become involved in organizing these symposia.