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.

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Study Topics

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