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Study Details: 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time
This programme will teach you how to think as a social psychologist, how to answer questions about social phenomena, and advance your knowledge of the theories, concepts, and research that make up social psychology’s distinctive perspective.
These entry requirements are for the 2026-27 academic year and requirements for future academic years may differ. Entry requirements for the 2027-28 academic year will be published on 1 Oct 2026.
A UK 2:1 honours degree, or its international equivalent, in psychology or in a related discipline, with at least one advanced course in psychology studied.
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The compulsory courses are:
Current Approaches in Social Psychology
Problem-based Social Psychological Research
Psychological Research Skills: General advanced research methodology
Univariate Statistics and Methodology using R: Introduction to R and statistical models
Multivariate Statistics and Methodology using R: Advanced statistical modelling
Option courses
The option course can be selected to tailor the programme to your interests. If you wish, you may choose the option course from an associated area, such as:
individual differences
informatics
psycholinguistics
developmental psychology
social psychology
Examples of option courses are:
Qualitative Methodologies in Psychological Research
Brain Imaging in Cognitive Neuroscience
Clinical Neuropsychology
Neuroscience of Language
Applied Psychometrics
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