




About
This program offers graduate degrees in the field of social psychology. The University of Connecticut is a top-20 public university in the U.S. The Department of Psychological Sciences is routinely ranked in top 10 in U.S. grant funding and its doctoral program is ranked in top 30 public research universities by The National Research Council. A recent comparison ranked UConn's social psychology program 11th in citation impact among universities in the U.S. (Nosek et al., 2010). (See more accolades and honors.)
Our program emphasizes important social issues (e.g., health, prejudice, discrimination) using multiple theoretical perspectives, multiple methods, and multiple levels of analysis (individual, dyad, group, intergroup, culture, network, society, international, ecology).
Research Groups
- Intergroup Relations Lab (Pratto)
- Language and Behavior Cultural Lab (LAB-C-Lab) (Ramírez-Esparza)
- Social Processes of AIDS Training Program (Kalichman)
- Social-Ecological and Environmental Lab: SEE lab (Marsh)
- Stigma Lab (Quinn)
- Systematic Health Action Research Program: SHARP lab (Johnson)
- Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP)
News
- Board of Trustees Emeritus Professor Jeffrey D. Fisher and brother/collaborator William Fisher win SPSP’s Applied Social-Personality AwardThe work of our long-term colleague, Jeff Fisher and his close collaborator, William Fisher, has garnered a career award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology for Applications for their work developing theory-based interventions for health-threat prevention behavior and why people may refuse help. Heartfelt congratulations!Posted on November 14, 2020
- Social’s 2019-2020 PhDs Advance to New JobsCongratulations to Dr. Leah Pound, who is now a Air Force Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Research Program Manager at the Department of Defense, to Dr. Mora Reinka, who is now an assistant professor at Ursinus College, to Dr. Gabriel Camacho, who is now an assistant professor at John Jay College, and to Dr. Aerielle M. Allen, […]Posted on September 2, 2020
- Dr. Kim Chaney joins the social area facultyWe are thrilled to welcome a new colleague, Dr. Kim Chaney, as an assistant professor in social psychology and the diversity sciences group in the Psychological Sciences Dept. Here is a nice article about CLAS’s new hires, featuring Kim at the bottom: CLAS Dr. Chaney is teaching PSYC 5703 Advanced Social Psychology this semester.Posted on September 2, 2020
- Tenure Success for Dr. Nicole Overstreet & Dr. Andrew L. Stewart !Dr. Nicole Overstreet (Uconn PhD. 2012) and Dr. Andrew L. Clark (UConn PhD. 2014) have each been granted tenure by Clark University. Our congratulations to each of them! We have such fantastic alumni and students! Dr. Overstreet’s homepage. Dr. Stewart’s homepage.Posted on February 14, 2020
- UConn PhD students attend Summer InstitutePhD students Andrew Cortopassi and Gabriel Camacho attended the Summer Institute in Social and Personality Psychology (SISSP) hosted by New York University in 2019.Posted on October 24, 2019
- PhD student Gabriel Camacho wins multiple awards!Congratulations to Gabe for winning: + An APS RISE Award for his poster titled, “The Adverse Effect of Stereotype Threat on the Speech Performance of Latinx Students,” presented at the 31st Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science. (co-authored by Diane M. Quinn) + A Grant-in-Aid from the Society for the Psychological Study of […]Posted on September 16, 2019
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