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MSc Social Cognition: Research and Applications

  • DeadlineStudy Details: 1 year - 2 years

Masters Degree Description

This MSc focuses on how individuals construe the social world and the processes that underlie social judgement and behaviour. The programme draws on the research of outstanding academic staff working in the areas of social cognition, social endocrinology, socio-cognitive neuroscience, and judgement and decision-making to provide unique, cutting-edge perspectives on humans as social beings. This programme should contribute to an understanding of applied societal problems in domains of climate change, mental health, inequality and social conflict.

Entry Requirements

A minimum of an upper second-class Bachelor's degree from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard. Students are expected to have a Bachelor's degree in Psychology. However, very good candidates in related areas, such as management, sociology, or communication sciences, will also be considered. Students should be prepared for the mathematical component contained in the MSc-level Research Statistics module.

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Student Destinations

Due to the transferable skills obtained throughout the course, we anticipate graduates to go into varied positions across research, marketing, teaching, academia, and management consultancy. 97% of our graduates have either gone into full-time work or further study within 15 months of completing the course (Graduate Outcomes survey 2017-23).

Module Details

Compulsory modules

  • Current Issues in Attitude Research
  • Understanding Individuals and Groups
  • Social Cognition, Affect and Motivation
  • MSc Social Cognition: Dissertation
  • Social Neuroscience
  • Moral Cognition
  • Intermediate statistics: Data analysis and visualisation with R
  • Advanced statistics: Data analysis and modelling with R
  • Social Psychology
  • The Social Psychology of Risk
  • Applied Decision-making
  • Human Learning and Memory
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • The Brain in Action
  • Designing and Analysing fMRI experiments
  • Principles of Cognition
  • Judgment and Decision-Making
  • Computational Modelling of Cognition
  • Neuroscience of Emotion and Decision-Making
  • Computer Programming
  • Current Issues in Cognitive Neuroscience: Translational Research

Optional modules

  • Social Psychology
  • The Social Psychology of Risk
  • Applied Decision-making
  • Human Learning and Memory
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • The Brain in Action
  • Designing and Analysing fMRI experiments
  • Principles of Cognition
  • Judgment and Decision-Making
  • Computational Modelling of Cognition
  • Neuroscience of Emotion and Decision-Making
  • Computer Programming
  • Current Issues in Cognitive Neuroscience: Translational Research
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