You’ll gain a solid grounding in the theoretical aspects of social and cultural psychology while also completing comprehensive training in both quantitative and qualitative research methods. This ...

Cultural psychology involves comparison as well ... cultural patterns related to how closely people adhere to social rules. Each culture has its own rules and norms about everything from ...

Pennebaker is now a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He retired from teaching two years ...

The social cure theory rests on a bedrock of robust findings that belonging to many social groups benefits a person’s physical and mental health. However, our recent cross-cultural research ...

Behind a woman who chooses to be the mistress of a married man and stay in the shadows, there are psychological factors influencing her decision.

With a Massey Master of Science (Psychology), you’ll further explore the thoughts, feelings and actions of individuals and groups in social and cultural contexts. Studying psychology will help you ...

The discipline of social and cultural psychology is broadly centred on understanding the ways in which culture and society shape how people think, behave and relate to one another. In the Department ...

People live in constant interaction with each other. We are members of groups, organisations, societies and cultural communities. Social psychology studies how this social world and individual people ...