The graduate program is designed to provide the students with advanced theoretical, empirical and methodological knowledge in Social Psychology and to give them opportunities to apply this knowledge to their specialization areas. Students equipped with the advanced knowledge and skills of their fields of specialization would be expected to either proceed to an academic career or to work in the field as practitioners or researchers.
Fields of Study :
Research topics in Social Psychology are; interpersonal relationships; marriage and family; friendship; adult attachment; developmental social cognition; groups; psychology of gender; development of a psychological model of balanced differentiation-integration; social representations; values, attitudes and beliefs; social psychology of the elderly; assessment of home environments; person-environment transactions; assessment of traffic and driving related behaviors and attitudes; human response to uncontrollable events (hazards).
PROFESSORS
İmamoğlu, Olcay: B.S., METU; M.A., University of Iowa; Ph.D., University of Strathclyde.
Relationships between Family Contexts and Self-Construals and Psychological Functioning across and within Cultures, the Balanced Integration-Differentiation (BID) Model, Gender and Marital Satisfaction, Social Psychology of Older Adults
Sümer, Nebi: B.S., METU; M.A., Hacettepe University; Ph.D., Kansas State University.
Attachment Styles in Adolescence and Adults, Parenting, Self-Concept, Self-Esteem, Traffic Psychology, Multivariate Statistics
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS
Öner Özkan, Bengi: B.S., METU; M.S., London School of Economics; Ph.D., University College London.
Social Representations, Representations of Innovations, in particular; Cross-Cultural Study of the Effect of Context on Adaptation-Innovation
Sakallı Uğurlu, Nuray: B.S., Ankara University; M.S., Ball State University; Ph.D., University of Kansas.
Women's Issues, Sexism, Violence within Family, Social Influence, Attitudes and Attitude Change, Stereotyping and Prejudice
M.S. PROGRAM IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Required Courses
PSY 500 Research Methods
Elective Courses
Students are required to take at least six electives from the list of courses offered or approved by the Department.