Training Program in Social Psychology

描述(申请者提供)：社会心理学研究生培养 俄亥俄州立大学的项目多年来一直在为美国提供新的博士S 30年了。它由九个人(很快就会变成十个)全职指导 主要隶属于该项目的教职员工。社会问题衍生出来 越来越多地从普通人面临的困境和诱惑 典型设置。吸毒、员工旷工、家庭暴力、不良饮食 选择、吸烟、酒后驾车都说明了这类担忧 通过社会心理学的理论和研究来解决的。的社会计划 俄亥俄州立大学为学生提供研究培训，使他们能够解决这样的问题 在他们的研究生涯中遇到了许多问题。该程序有四个功能， 区别于社会心理学上的其他培训中心。首先， 该计划采取多层次综合培养研究生的方式。 社会中的问题是多重决定的，其解决方案必须建立在 基于这一认识。博士后和博士后培训部分旨在 使学生掌握检查所需的概念和方法工具 从多个层面对社会心理现象进行分析。第二， 该计划围绕五个核心原则组织：科学能力， 学术和科学诚信、个人责任、优先事项 环境，以及每个学生的主权。这些原则是 通过课程结构、研究活动和 在项目中进行指导。第三，该方案提供了一个综合和 基础研究培训与应用研究培训之间的协同关系。 通过他们的研究参与，学生们了解到没有什么 作为一个好的理论，没有什么比这更能促进一个好的理论 一个令人困惑的实际问题。第四，也是最后一点，该计划是 以学生和教职员工的质量和合作精神而闻名。 教师和学生都是该领域的高知名度和开创性的贡献者。一个 培训补助金(支持博士后和博士后实习生) 社会心理学培训计划将大大促进 项目为该领域贡献学者的能力具有多层次 解决个人面临的实际问题所需的分析技能 在当今社会。

DESCRIPTION (Provided by applicant): 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 nine (and soon to be ten) full-time 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.