PhD in Psychology - Social Psychology in Honolulu United States | University of Hawaii at Manoa

The Cognition, Neuroscience, & Social (CNS) program performs advanced studies on human behavior, examining processes from cellular to societal levels while investigating how brain functions and behaviors interact within social environments. To address compelling questions in these fields, researchers and graduate students employ diverse methodologies including behavioral experiments, psychophysical measurements, computational modeling, eye-tracking and motion analysis in virtual reality, EEG, fMRI, along with developmental, genetic, and animal-based research techniques. CNS graduate students gain cross-disciplinary education spanning all three domains, actively engaging in and directing both current and innovative research initiatives. Typically, students work under the guidance of faculty specializing in cognition, neuroscience, or social psychology, with opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration and mentorship. The CNS program includes faculty investigating these key areas:
Social: This psychology discipline examines individuals within their social environments, seeking to understand how situational factors influence thoughts, emotions, and actions. Current research develops and evaluates theories of social behavior to shed light on various human experiences, covering interpersonal dynamics, prejudice and stereotypes, person perception, judgment biases, emotional processes, cultural impacts on cognition, prosocial and aggressive behaviors, self-concept and identity, as well as attitude formation and change.