Program Description

Associate Professor Serena Chen Social/Personality Area Head

Social/Personality Program Faculty Curriculum Colloquium Series Placement of Our Ph.D. Students Graduate Program Application Students in this joint program become familiar with social and personality psychology through a one-year proseminar for first-year graduate students. Students then focus on preferred aspects of the field. The program is designed to encourage the development of quantitative skills and a theoretical background suitable for research. The goal of the program is to prepare students for careers in research and university teaching.

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Social psychology concerns itself with the effects of other people on the individual as well as with interaction between persons. Personality psychology is concerned with the ways individuals perceive, act upon, and understand their respective worlds as they seek to establish adaptive life modes. The joint, integrated program provides training in six core areas: (1) self, identity, and culture; (2) social cognition; (3) emotion, motivation, and health; (4) personality processes and adult development; (5) interpersonal and intergroup relations; and (6) groups and organizations.

Curriculum

First Year

There is a single one-year-long proseminar to introduce students to the area of social/personality psychology.

All students will take a one-year long research and data analysis course and a one-semester methods class.

Students will take topical seminars (290s) with faculty.

Students will enroll for course credit for participation in a colloquium series.

Second Year
All students will complete a second-year project. This project will take the form of a research project supervised by a faculty member or affiliated faculty member in the group. A second reader from the Department or affiliated area is required. The student and the sponsor should plan explicitly to create a program of research experience and training that will appropriately broaden the student's expertise. This project should be completed by the end of the semester of the second year.

Students specializing in personality assessment will take a one-year course (251A-B).

Third Year
Students will sit for the Qualifying Examination in the third year. The examining committee will consist of four faculty, one of whom must be a Berkeley Academic Senate member from another department (outside member). The Graduate Division requires that students be examined on three broad topics which are to be listed on the application to sit for the Qualifying Examination.

The Qualifying Examination consists of a written and an oral part. The written part is departmental policy, whereas the oral part is governed by the Graduate Division's regulations. Social/Personality students may complete the written part of the examination by producing two review papers on two topics or by responding to faculty questions in a formal written examination. In the paper option, the student will prepare comprehensive review papers on two topics, though the oral examination part focuses on three topics. The papers are expected to be of the quality and format of Psychological Review or Psychological Bulletin. Application for the Qualifying Examination is available in the Student Services Office. Students will determine which option they want to pursue in consultation with their advisor.

Upon completion of the Qualifying Examination students are expected to advance to candidacy. Students must file for advancement to candidacy no later than the semester following completion of the Qualifying Examination. The application for candidacy requires students to indicate the three- member research/dissertation committee which will be responsible for guiding the student through research and the dissertation. The research/dissertation committee will consist of a chair, an outside member (Berkeley Academic Senate faculty member from another department) and another psychology professor.

Fourth Year
The department requires students advanced to candidacy to have their dissertation proposal reviewed by a Thesis Advisory Committee. The Committee will consist of the three-member research/dissertation committee noted above and other members selected by the chair of the committee and student. It is expected that the completed dissertation will be submitted to the Graduate Division at the end of the fourth year.

Colloquium Series
Students are required to participate in three colloquia series, which are offered each semester: (1) Departmental-wide, (2) Institute of Personality and Social Research, and (3) Gordon Allport Series (sponsored by the Social/Personality graduate students).

Faculty

Core SP Faculty

Ayduk, Ozlem	Associate Professor	Close relationships; emotion regulation; development of self-regulation in children
Chen, Serena	Associate Professor	Social bases of the self, multiple levels of self-definition, close relationships and cognition, social identity, intergroup relations, dual process models, knowledge representation and use
Covington, Martin	Professor	Problem-solving and thinking; educational applications; creativity and affective
John, Oliver	Professor	Self-concept; self-perception accuracy and biases; personality development and assessment across the life span; emotion experience and expression; cultural differences
Keltner, Dacher	Professor	Social/Personality: emotion; social interaction; individual differences in emotion; conflict and negotiation; culture
Maslach, Christina	Professor	Social: job burnout and health psychology; individuation and dissent, gender roles
Mendelsohn, Gerald	Professor	Personality; causal attribution and interpersonal attraction; individual differences in purposive behavior; computer mediated communication
Mendoza-Denton, Rodolfo	Associate Professor	Prejudice; stereotyping; cultural influences on social cognition; personality; intergroup processes; coping
Nemeth, Charlan	Professor	Social: influence processes; decision making and creativity in small groups; managing innovation in organizations; psychology of creative scientists, artists and entrepreneurs
Peng, Kaiping	Associate Professor	Social: cultural psychology, culture and cognition, reasoning and judgment across cultures and domains, and cross-cultural understandings
Zedeck, Sheldon	Professor	Industrial/organizational/social psychology/personnel; cross-cultural work values; decision-making research; work and family issues; statistics and research methodology

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Affiliated SP Faculty

Block, Jack	Emeritus
Craik, Kenneth	Emeritus
Glaser, Jack	Affiliated Professor	Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination; Intergroup Conflict and Hate Crime; Unconscious Affect and Cognition; Political Decision Making and Behavior; Political Ideology; Criminal Justice Decision Making.
Gough, Harrison	Emeritus	Personality assessment, cross-cultural testing, creativity
Helson, Ravenna	Adjunct Professor Emerita	Personality and adult development, psychology of women, creativity
Kihlstrom, John	Professor	Cognition in personal and social contexts; unconscious mental processes; memory; hypnosis; social cognition; personality; experimental psychopathology; health cognition and behavior
Kring, Ann	Professor	Psychopathology. Emotional features of schizophrenia, the linkage between emotion and other cognitive and social deficits in schizophrenia, emotion, social interaction, and social anxiety, emotion, and depression. Emotion: individual differences in emotional expression, gender and emotion, the relationship between social context, personality, and emotion.
Levenson, Robert	Professor	Emotion. Autonomic nervous system and facial expressive components, cultural influences, empathy, emotional control, emotional changes with aging, dementing disorders, and brain pathology. Marital interaction across the life span: emotional and physiological signs and predictors of marital distress.
MacCoun, Robert	Affiliated Professor
Runyan, William McKinley (Mac)	Affiliated Professor
Tetlock, Philip	Affiliated Professor