TRAINING PROGRAM IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

30多年来，俄亥俄州立大学的社会心理学研究生培训项目一直在为全国提供新的博士学位。它由一个由八名（很快将增至十名）全职教员组成的小组指导，这些教员主要与该项目有关。社会问题越来越多地源于典型环境中典型人群所面临的困境和诱惑。吸毒、员工旷工、家庭暴力、不良的饮食选择、吸烟、酗酒和开车，这些都是社会心理学理论和研究关注的问题。俄亥俄州立大学的社会项目为学生提供研究培训，使他们能够在整个研究生涯中解决这些问题。该项目有四个特点，区别于其他社会心理学培训中心。首先，该项目采用多层次的综合方法进行研究生培养。社会上的问题是多方面决定的，它们的解决办法必须以这种认识为基础。Pre- and - postdoctoral training components旨在让学生掌握从多个层面分析社会心理现象所需的概念和方法工具。其次，该计划围绕五个核心原则组织：科学能力，奖学金和科学诚信，个人责任，优先设置和每个学生的主权。这些原则通过课程作业、研究活动和项目指导的结构得以实施。第三，该计划提供了基础研究和应用研究培训之间的综合和协同关系。通过参与研究，学生们了解到，没有什么比一个好的理论更实用，也没有什么比一个令人困惑的实际问题更能培养一个好的理论。第四，也是最后一点，该项目的特点是学生和教师的质量和合作精神。教师和学生是该领域的高知名度和开创性贡献者。社会心理学培训项目的培训补助金（支持博士前和博士后学员）将极大地促进该项目为该领域贡献学者的能力，这些学者需要具备多层次的分析技能，以解决当今社会中个人面临的实际问题。

The social psychology graduate training program at Ohio State has been providing the nation with new Ph.D.'s for over 30 years. It is guided by a group of eight (and soon to be ten) fulltime faculty whose primary affiliation is with the program. Societal problems derive more and more from the dilemmas and temptations faced by typical people in typical settings. Drug use, employee absenteeism, domestic violence, poor diet choices, smoking, and drinking and driving all illustrate the kinds of concerns addressed by theory and research in social psychology. The social program at Ohio State offers its students research training enabling them to tackle such problems throughout their research careers. The program has four features that distinguish it from other training centers in social psychology. First, the program adopts a multi-level integrative approach toward graduate training. Problems in society are multiply determined, and their solutions must be based on that recognition. Pre- and postdoctoral training components are designed to equip students with the conceptual and methodological tools required to examine social psychological phenomena from multiple levels of analysis. Second, the program is organized around five core principles: scientific competence, scholarship and scientific integrity, personal responsibility, priority setting, and the sovereignty of each student. These principles are operationalized through the structure of coursework, research activities, and mentoring in the program. Third, the program provides an integrated and synergistic relationship between training in basic and applied research. Through their research involvement, students learn both that there is nothing so practical as a good theory and that nothing fosters a good theory more than a perplexing practical problem. Fourth, and finally, the program is distinguished by the quality and collegiality of both students and faculty. Faculty and students are high visibility, seminal contributors to the field. A training grant (that supports both predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees) for the social psychology training program will substantially facilitate the program's ability to contribute scholars to the field with the multi-level analytic skills needed to address the practical problems faced by individuals in today's society.