The program in SocialPersonality Psychology is a nationally prominent program of research and graduate education that offers research training and course work in:<br>Personality<br>Health & Well-Being<br>Race, Ethnicity, & Identity<br>Organizational Leadership<br>Social Cognition & Social Neuroscience<br>Research Methodology & Quantitative Psychology<br>The socialpersonality area has particular and unique strengths in personality psychology and health and well-being. In the area of personality, specific topics of research include psychometrics, cultural differences in construal of situations, personality and emotion, personality and culture, personality and leadership, and the relationship between personality and health.<br>In well-being science and health, faculty are investigating promotion of happiness and strengths, well-being assessment, health communication and promotion, redemptive life stories, emotion regulation, self-serving biases, social support, and coping.<br>Faculty in the area have audio-visual laboratories and observation rooms and use state-of-the art assessment methods including Electronically-Activated Recorders (i.e., EAR devices), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), physiological measures, experience sampling, and life story interviews, among others.<br>Outside the laboratory, faculty and student research has been conducted in Riverside city classrooms, in local hospitals and clinics, in other countries, in California businesses, and in assorted community settings. There are also ties to the system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and to UCR’s School of Medicine and Center for Healthy Communities.