社会心理学研究生课程为学生做好了从事社会心理学，健康心理学或这两个学科之间联系的职业的准备。关注的领域包括人际关系和动机，亲密关系和自我调节，对健康行为的社会影响，对健康和疾病（例如癌症）的生物社会心理和文化影响，个性在创造力，成功和幸福中的作用，以及IRT和社会心理测量问题。该计划通常强调社会心理学理论，方法和概念在现实生活环境和重要社会问题研究中的应用。<br> <br>该计划的教职人员不断得到联邦政府（例如NIH）和当地机构。博士课程的毕业生已在许多大学和研究机构获得任命，例如：贝勒医学院，加利福尼
The graduate program in Social, Personality, and Health (SPH) Psychology prepares students for careers in social psychology, personality psychology, health psychology, and the interface among these disciplines. Thematic areas of concentration that cut across faculty members and students in the SPH area include interpersonal relations, close relationships, and social networks, the self, identity, understanding, and belief, social cognition and social norms, antecedents and consequences of personality, scale development for social psychological and personality constructs, health behaviors including alcohol and substance use, disease risk and longevity, self-regulation and motivation, and sociocultural contexts and adverse experiences. The SPH area also has a strong focus on advanced quantitative methods including item response theory and psychometrics, structural equation and multilevel modeling, macro- and micro-longitudinal analyses, language analysis, and other data science techniques.The program generally emphasizes the application of social, personality, and health psychology theories, methods, and concepts to research in real life settings and important social issues.