应用心理学为增进生活和解决社会问题创造了理解和解决方案。在我们的研究中，我们使用科学来产生知识，以指导行动并在日常生活的背景和环境中制定政策。我们将问题带到种族，阶级，性别，文化，年龄和残疾状况各异的社区，企业和非营利组织，学校和家庭。这使我们的科学不仅经常与国内外其他研究人员合作，而且还与生活和工作环境中的人们合作。通过合作，我们努力让社区合作者使用和维持我们共同学习的知识。<br> <br>应用社会心理学领域的学生学习对自我，人际关系，群体间关系和社会认知的社会心理学理解。这些核心社会心理学理论和过程
Applied psychology creates understanding and solutions to enhance lives and address societal problems. In our research, we use science to generate knowledge that guides action and frames policy in the contexts and settings of daily life. We take our questions to neighborhoods, businesses and non-profits, schools and families who are diverse in ethnicity, class, gender, culture, age, and disability status. This makes ours a science that is often collaborative not only with other researchers nationally and internationally, but also with people in the settings where they live and work. Through collaboration, we endeavor for our community collaborators to use and sustain what we have learned together. We educate both undergraduates and graduates about human behavior, about the theories in which research is rooted, and about how to actively critique the assumptions, methods, and ethics that are a part of generating and using psychological knowledge. Along with our research, our work with students reflects our commitment to realizing human and organizational possibilities to their fullest. Students in the Applied Social Psychology area study social psychological understandings of the self, interpersonal relations, intergroup relations, and social cognition. These theoretical foundations in core social psychological theories and processes serve as a basis that guides their integrative applied research. We follow a full-cycle social psychology model with basic research informing applied social problems.