Social Psychology
What is Social Psychology?
Social psychology is the scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another. - Social Psychology Network
Social psychology is closely tied to personality psychology which is the study of how individual differences are associated with thoughts, feelings, and behavior. At NDSU we study topics related to both social and personality psychology. Undergraduate students interested in social psychology may enroll in our many social psychology related courses and are encouraged to seek research assistantships in our health psychology labs.

Study Topics
- attitudes and attitude-behavior relations
- self-regulation
- nostalgia
- mood and emotion
- prejudice
- decision making
- persuasion
- friendship
- helping
- aggression
- conformity
- group interaction

Our Programs
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Social Psychology Faculty and Research
Martin Coleman, Ph.D. - Research Interests: Social cognition and emotion
Katherine Duggan, Ph.D. - Research Interests: Personality, sleep, cardiovascular disease, lifespan development, healthy aging, statistics/methods
Anna Finley, Ph.D. - Research Interests: Social and affective neuroscience, emotion regulation, self-regulation, well-being, healthy aging, loneliness
Jeremy Hamm, Ph.D. - Research Interests: Motivation, emotion, self-regulation, life transitions, healthy aging
Clayton Hilmert, Ph.D. - Research Interests: Stress, psychophysiology, and health
Michael D. Robinson, Ph.D. - Research Interests: Personality, emotion, cognition, self-regulation
Social Psychology Faculty and Research at NDSU
Martin Coleman, Ph.D. - Research Interests: Social cognition and emotion
Katherine Duggan, Ph.D. - Research Interests: Personality, sleep, cardiovascular disease, lifespan development, healthy aging, statistics/methods
Anna Finley, Ph.D. - Research Interests: Social and affective neuroscience, emotion regulation, self-regulation, well-being, healthy aging, loneliness
Jeremy Hamm, Ph.D. - Research Interests: Motivation, emotion, self-regulation, life transitions, healthy aging
Clayton Hilmert, Ph.D. - Research Interests: Stress, psychophysiology, and health
Michael D. Robinson, Ph.D. - Research Interests: Personality, emotion, cognition, self-regulation
Social Psychology Resources
Tell me more about social and personality psychology. - The Society for Personality and Social Psychology
How does a person become a social psychologist? - Social Psychology on psychologycareercenter.org