Arizona State University The Social Psychology Area at ASU is hoping to recruit 3-4 incoming phd students. Faculty considering serving as primary mentors for new students are: Steven Neuberg, Virginia Kwan, Michael Varnum, and Athena Aktipis. Recruiting faculty interests include evolutionary psychology, cultural psychology, cultural change, cultural evolution, cooperation, cyberpsychology and technology, prejudice, and intergroup relations. Deadline: 12/5. Apply here
City University of New York (CUNY), Graduate Center, Basic and Applied Social Psychology training area; We produce rigorous, competent, and creative researchers who are well-versed in the traditional canon of social psychology, but can apply this knowledge to engage with innovative questions and pursuits; Most core faculty accepting students; Application instructions; open house 10/21/22; application deadline 12/1/22
Florida State University (David March; March Research Lab; Attitudes/Evaluation, Prejudice/Stereotyping, Threat Perception, and Implicit Social Cognition. We use a variety of measures, including physiological (e.g., HR, ECG, EMG), eye-tracking, facial-coding, and various reaction time measures including mouse-tracking. Fully funded with generous stipend & tuition waived. Apply here; Deadline 12/1/22.)
Kansas State University (1-2 positions available for Fall 2023, research areas include Persuasion, Positive Psychology, Prejudice & Antisocial Behavior, Masculine Honor, Social Vigilantism; ; Learn more / Apply here; Application deadline is 12/1/2022)
Heriot-Watt University (Scotland)(Katharina Lefringhausen; Centre for Applied Behavioural Sciences; Culture and Social Interaction Research Group: @CSI_ResearchGr; Acculturation, Majority Members, Globalisation, Cultural Appropriation, Intercultural Competence Training. GTA (2 years) with PhD (2 years part-time, 2 years full time), fully funded & tuition waived; Tentative application Deadline: 12/1/22)
Oklahoma State University (Jaimie Arona Krems; Social & Evolutionary Psychology Lab, part of the Oklahoma Center for Evolutionary Analysis (OCEAN); Friendship, Women's Sociality, Stereotyping & Prejudice; More Information & Application Link. Fully funded with stipend & tuition waived—no GREs required; Application Deadline: 12/1/22)
Oklahoma State University (Juliana French; Evolution & Relationships at Oklahoma State Lab, part of the Oklahoma Center for Evolutionary Analysis (OCEAN) and the OSU Brain Initiative; Biological and evolutionary processes underlying romantic attraction, long-term relationship maintenance, and intrasexual competition; More Information & Application Link Here. Fully funded with stipend & tuition waived—no GREs required; Application Deadline: 12/1/22)
Oklahoma State University (Daniel Sznycer; Sznycer Lab, part of the Oklahoma Center for Evolutionary Analysis (OCEAN); Adaptationist approaches to emotion, evaluative processes, morality, and institutions; More Information & Application Link. Fully funded with stipend & tuition waived; Application Deadline: 12/1/22)
Penn State University (The Social Psychology Area at PSU is recruiting in the following labs: Reginald Adams' Social Vision and Interpersonal Perception Lab which studies how visual cues combine and interact to form the unified representations that guide our impressions of and responses to others; Daryl Cameron's Empathy & Moral Psychology Lab which studies empathy, outrage, and emotion regulation, moral & political decision-making, and coordinates with the Rock Ethics Institute; Karen Gasper's Feelings, Behavior, and Information Processing Lab which studies how feelings shape people's thoughts and behaviors; Sean Laurent's Morality & Social Cognition Lab which studies social cognition, moral judgments and decision-making, person perception, perspective taking, and psychology and the law; Janet Swim's Pro-Environmental Action Lab which studies emotions, hope, systems thinking, environmental decision making, policy support; Theresa Vescio's Gender, Power, and Privilege Lab which studies racialized gender gaps within and across contexts and cultures, and how processes of hegemony and subtle discrimination justify and reinforce the status quo. How to apply; no GREs required; deadline 12/1/22)
Purdue University (Teri Kirby (she/her); PI of the Diversity, Identity, & Prejudice Lab; Recruiting a graduate student interested in diversity initiatives, inclusion, identity, and prejudice; Thekla Morgenroth (they/them), PI of the UNICORN lab, is intending to recruit a graduate student. Current lab topics include gender, sexual orientation, issues faced by trans and nonbinary people, feminism, essentialism, and the moralization of women's bodies. See here for more information about the application process. No GREs required; deadline 12/1/22)
Rutgers University - New Brunswick (Diana T. Sanchez, director of the CRIS lab, hopes to recruit a graduate student interested in examining stigma, identity, or close-relationships. Current lab topics include multiracial identity, essentialism, and gender/sexuality. Applicants with interests in stigma by prejudice transfer, lay theories of prejudice, or identity cues will be given priority in admissions to the CRIS lab. Please go here for more information & the application link. This is a fully funded position with stipend & tuition waived and an application deadline of 12/1/22)
Saint Louis University The Social Psychology concentration at SLU is recruiting for Ph.D. students in the following labs: Eddie Clark's Applied Social Psychology Lab which conducts research on infidelity, relationship maintenance, and health; Richard Harvey's Collective Identity Lab which conducts research on identity, prejudice, and performance management; Ruth Warner's Social Psychology of Justice Lab which conducts research on anti-transgender prejudice and reactions to victims of sexual assault and sexual harassment; Apply; deadline 12/31/22; no GREs required)
Syracuse University (Brett Jakubiak; website; We research close relationships, social support, attachment, and affectionate touch; More information and apply; deadline 12/1/22)
Syracuse University (Jeewon Oh; website; We research singlehood, close relationships, personality, and well-being across the lifespan; More information and apply; deadline 12/1/22)
Tulane University The Social Psychology Program at Tulane University is hoping to recruit 2 incoming PhD students. Faculty considering serving as primary mentors for new students are: Lisa Molix, Damian Murray, and Laurie O'Brien. Recruiting faculty interests include intergroup relation, health and well-being among marginalized populations, diversity science, evolutionary psychology, and cultural psychology. Tulane University does not have an application fee. Deadline: 12/1. Apply here
UCLA (Falk Lieder; Rational Altruism Lab). The Rational Altruism Lab at UCLA has open positions for Ph.D. students motivated to conduct rigorous empirical, theoretical, and computational research in psychology with a high positive social impact. Possible topics include rationality and decision-making, goal-setting and motivation, as well as value change and the learning mechanisms that change how people think and decide. Our projects will range from fundamental basic research to developing and evaluating digital interventions. Our mission is to help lay the scientific foundations for fostering and supporting the effective pursuit of highly impactful altruistic projects. This includes research on understanding and improving goal-setting and decision-making, motivation, moral values and moral reasoning, rationality, and associated learning processes. Applicants with a background in psychology, economics, cognitive science, computer science, mathematics, statistics, ML/AI, education, HCI, or a related discipline are welcome. The application deadline is December 1, 2022. Please apply to the Cognitive Area. For more information on how to apply, see https://www.psych.ucla.edu/graduate/prospective-students/application-instructions/.
University at Albany, State University of New York The Social & Personality Psychology Program at the University at Albany is seeking to recruit 4 new PhD students for funded assistantships with stipend and tuition waiver. Faculty considering serving as primary mentors for new students include Cynthia Najdowski, Anna Reiman, Brendan O'Connor, and Ron Freidman. Recruiting faculty interests include psychology and law, prejudice and discrimination, diversity and social justice, empathy and altruism, and the psychology of music. Deadline to apply: 12/1/22. Apply here. GRE is optional.
University of Texas, Austin (Jennifer Beer; Socioemotional processing, Real world behavior, task-related neural activity, resting state; application info; deadline 11/15/22)
University of Alabama (William Hart; (1) the subjective logic of aberrant behavior; (2) social influence (e.g., norms); and (3) the formation and updating of beliefs (e.g., selecting and processing view-point relevant information); [https://psychology.ua.edu/graduate-studies/admissions/]; deadline 11/15/22)
University of Alabama (Katie Garrison; UA Lab Website; self-control, emotion regulation, EEG; funded with stipend and tuition waiver; Application Deadline 11/15/22; UA graduate admissions)
University of California, Irvine (Kristine Molina, https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/molina/: Discrimination, Health Inequities, Liberatory Consciousness, Critical and Intersectional Methods, Paul Piff, https://paulpiff.wixsite.com/meshlab: Inequality, Morality, Emotion; Peter Ditto, https://sites.uci.edu/peterdittolab/: Motivated reasoning, moral and political reasoning; Pia Dietze, https://www.piadietze.com/: Social class, economic inequality, social inequality (race, gender, etc.); Roxane Cohen Silver, https://sites.uci.edu/sscl/: Trauma, Disasters, Stress, Coping; Oliver Sng, https://www.oliversng.com/: Evolution, culture, stereotyping, ecology; [https://ps.soceco.uci.edu/pages/graduate-program]; GREs optional, deadline 12/1/2023)
University of Florida (Gregory D. Webster, Web Lab; Intensive data analysis of large, mostly pre-existing data sets; Personality judgment; Romantic and sexual relationships; Animal welfare; Meta-science; Admissions info; Applications due December 1, 2022)
University of Georgia (https://psychology.uga.edu/directory/people/michelle-vandellen Michelle vanDellen]; self-regulation & motivation, health behavior change/maintenance, social cognition, motivation in relationships [https://psychology.uga.edu/how-apply-our-graduate-programs]; deadline 12/1/22) No GRE requirement
University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada) (http://www.patbarclay.com Pat Barclay) The evolution of cooperation via reputation, partner choice, punishment, fitness interdependence, and costly signaling; game theory, economic games. Accepting students in two grad streams with different deadlines (AS/NACS) - contact for details.
University of Hawaii at Manoa (Kristin Pauker; prejudice, stereotyping, intergroup relations) is recruiting a graduate student to join the Intergroup Social Perception Lab for Fall 2023 to work on a NSF-funded project on children’s media and interracial friendships. Deadline to apply to the program is 12/1/2022. GRE not required.
University of Houston (Olivia Atherton, Personality, Contexts, & Health Lab: personality traits, sociocultural contexts, health behaviors, lifespan; Rodica Damian, Personality Development & Success Lab: personality development, creativity, career success, diversifying experiences; Adam Fetterman, Personality, Emotion, & Social Cognition Lab: metaphors, nostalgia, goal orientation, meaning in life, intellectual humility & wrongness admission, science denial & bias, language analysis (NLP), diversity & prejudice, religion & politics; Jaye Derrick, Social Processes Lab: close relationships, alcohol & smoking, goal attainment, health disparities, parasocial relationships; Chip Knee, Self, Motivation, & Relationship Theories Lab: Close relationships, motivation, stigma, identity, sexual minorities, social media; Clayton Neighbors Social Influences & Health Lab: alcohol, substance use, gambling, intimate partner violence, religion & spirituality, social networks; Lynne Steinberg: item response theory, measurement; [https://uh.edu/class/psychology/social-psych/about/]; deadline 12/01/22)
University of Manitoba (Daniel Bailis, Action and Identity Lab: Self-Compassion, Consumerism, Pro-Environmental Behaviors, Behavioral Decision-Making, Goals, Social Psychology and Health; Jessica Cameron, Self and Interpersonal Dynamics Lab: Romantic Relationship Formation, Gender and Sexual Identity, Self-Esteem, Interpersonal Perception; Nicholas Evans, Personality, Relationships, Emotion, Social Cognition, & Identity Lab: Nostalgia, Metaphor Use, Intellectual Humility, Science Denialism, Romantic Relationships, Mental Imagery, Meaning in Life, Self & Identity; Danielle Gaucher, Intergroup Relations & Social Justice Laboratory; Raymond P Perry, Motivation and Academic Achievement Laboratory: Human Motivation, Cognition, and Emotion, Health and Aging, Prejudice and Discrimination; Katherine Starzyk, Social Justice Laboratory: Intergroup Relations, Reconciliation, Solidarity, Reparations, Social Justice, Indigenous, Psychometrics, Polling, Personality; Jacquie Vorauer, Social Relations Lab: Intergroup Relations, Empathy and Perspective Taking, Social Perception, Power; Admissions Info; deadline 12/15/22)
University of New Hampshire (April Bailey (she/her); BIAS Lab; Topics & approaches include social cognition, intersectionality, race, gender, sexual orientation, typicality/prototypicality biases, concepts, essentialism, social identity & language, fairness in AI. Apply here No GREs required; deadline 1/1/23)
University of Oregon (Chanel Meyers; Diversity & Social Cognition Lab; Racial diversity, Intergroup relations, Prejudice confrontation, Social categorization, Identity; Admissions info; no GREs required; applications due Dec 01, 2022)
University of Southern California (Leor Hackel; Social decision-making, social reward learning, social cognition, social neuroscience; application; deadline 12/1/22)
University of Toronto (Felix Cheung, Population Well-being Lab; Population Determinants and Consequences of Subjective Well-being; War and Conflict; Global Affairs; Social Justice; Causal Inference with Observational Data; Meta-science; Application Information; deadline 12/01/22)
Washington University in St. Louis (Jessie Sun; Well-Being and Morality Lab; More Info; well-being, morality, social interactions, personality; 1 fully funded position; Application info; deadline 12/1/22)
Washington University in St. Louis (WELL Lab; Well-Being and Emotions across the Lifespan Lab; well-being, emotion, emotion regulation, personality, lifespan development, healthy aging, physical health, dementia prevention; 2 fully funded position; Application info; deadline 12/1/22)
Wichita State University (Jennifer Demers; Social Action, Violence, & Inequities (SAVI) Lab; Our lab researches sexual violence, intimate partner violence, and stalking. Specific areas of interest related to interpersonal violence include: social movements and activism; social identities (e.g., gender minorities, bodies of size/fatphobia, sexual minorities) and intersectionality; social media and technology; community-based prevention; and trauma-informed responses to disclosure; Community Psychology Doctoral Program information; Application information; Deadline 1/15/2023)