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Experimental Social Psychology
Social psychology tries to answer how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. Particularly, we study how human cognition is affected by social factors, and how people behave in social groups. The Experimental Social Psychology specialization offers advanced training in social cognition, intergroup relations, research methods and statistical methods. This is the only specialization offered at the Faculty of Psychology with an explicit aim to train future researchers: both in academic and practical sense.
In this specialization you will learn and gain skills in experimental design, survey design, statistical analysis and interview methods. Researchers specialized in experimental social psychology are currently working in the fields of evaluation, public opinion, conflict resolution, tolerance, education, anti-discriminatory education.
Though the specialization in research oriented, it suitable not only for those with plans for a scientific career. The skills and knowledge taught in this specialization are in high demand in more applied settings too. Many national and international governmental and non-governmental organizations work on topics in which both knowledge of social psychology and research methods is highly valuable. As the basis of good policy and its implementation is knowledge and data, this specialization provides the expertise for careers in applied fields as well.
The specialization is organized in such a way that students of years four and five take courses together. Below is a table with the courses included in the specialization. From time to time changes are made to the courses offered, or their timing; for the most up to date overview of courses offered within the specialization and detailed descriptions of the courses, please see the link on the left: course offer.
| Year A | semester | Hours | ECTS |
| Acculturation | winter | 30 | 3 |
| Qualitative and Mixed Research Methods in Psychology | winter | 30 | 3 |
| Advanced Data Exploration Methods - Dimension Reduction, Exploratory Factor Analysis and Clustering Analysis | winter | 30 | 3 |
| Internet Research Methods and Tools | winter | 30 | 3 |
| Political Psychology | summer | 30 | 3 |
| Statistical Models for the Analysis of Survey Data | summer | 30 | 3 |
| Cross-Cultural Research Methods | summer | 30 | 3 |
| Advanced Experimental Methods | summer | 30 | 3 |
| Applied Social Psychology - Research Trip | summer | 30 | 2 |
| Year B | semester | Hours | ECTS |
| Social Cognition | winter | 30 | 3 |
| Regression Analysis: Linear Models | winter | 30 | 3 |
| Neuropsychological methods in Social Psychology | winter | 30 | 3 |
| Intergroup Relations | winter | 30 | 3 |
| Structural Equation Modeling | summer | 30 | 3 |
| Survey Methods: A Practical Guide to Design a Questionnaire | summer | 15 | 2 |
| Social Cognition Lab | summer | 30 | 3 |
| Social Psychophysiology | summer | 30 | 3 |
In addition to specialization courses, students will be enrolling in elective courses, some of which will specifically fall within the field of their specialization, they can enroll for non-Psychology courses offered by different departments and will be working on the Master’s thesis.