社会心理学是一个跨学科的研究领域，强调个人之间的相互作用，相互作用和宏观结构。研究的这类问题的例子包括：个人的联想和背景如何为某些生活事件提供动力，个人如何协商日常生活，暴力可能如何发生，个人和群体的重要特征（例如性别，年龄，种族和阶级）如何结构性互动，群体互动如何增加或挑战不平等，以及社会不平等如何影响心理健康，犯罪和偏差。该部门在社会心理学和不同的方法论中提供了许多不同的观点。
Social psychology is an interdisciplinary field of research that emphasizes the interplay among the individual, interactions and macrostructures. Examples of the kinds of issues studied include how individuals associations and context create the impetus for certain life events, how individuals negotiate their everyday world, how violence might arise, how important characteristics of individuals and groups like gender, age, ethnicity and class structure interactions, how group interactions can increase or challenge inequality, and how social inequality influences mental health, crime, and deviance.<br><br>The Department offers many different perspectives within the social psychology and differing methodologies as well. There are two laboratories associated with social psychology at Texas A&M University: Howard B. Kaplan Laboratory for Social Science Research and the Stuart J. Hysom Social Psychology Laboratory.