Social and Cultural Psychology
The social and cultural psychology focus at UTEP investigates the influence of social and personality factors on people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, with an emphasis on social cognition. These factors, and outcomes, include broad topics related to attitudes, cognition, emotions, intergroup relations, interpersonal relations, and stereotyping and prejudice. Members of this group utilize a wide range of social cognitive and personality methods to investigate a variety of thought-provoking theories. Some of these methods include reaction time paradigms, surveys, event-related potentials (ERP), experience sampling or daily diary protocols, video gaming and virtual reality, and linguistic analysis. In addition, much of this research incorporates issues relevant to the community’s unique border situation. As such, the social psychology group has diverse perspectives, which encourages interesting collaborations and opportunities to apply our basic research.
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- Learn more about the People in our program, including faculty, current graduate students, and alumni.
- See our Laboratories & Research Infrastructure and learn about the research conducted in our program.
- Learn more about the Social and Cultural Psychology Curriculum.
- Prospective graduate students should read our Application Information. Those interested in our program are encouraged to contact faculty regarding research interests and/or any questions related to the application process.
- View the UTEP Department of Psychology homepage to learn more about our faculty and other graduate programs.
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