The Psychology Graduate Program offers general graduate training in psychology leading to a 36-credit Master of Arts in Psychology degree. It provides students with the opportunity to select courses in a variety of fields including social, cognitive, developmental, organizational, and experimental psychology. The degree may serve as preparation for those training for entry into a doctoral program or as additional training for those who plan to enter or are already involved in applied areas of psychology with an emphasis on research (see our alumnae/i's web page for more information on career opportunities).
Course work is complemented by numerous opportunities to engage in research under the supervision of a faculty member. Our faculty are interested in a variety of research areas:
- Affect, work, and cognition
- Cognitive neuroscience
- Cognitive disabilities
- Cultural psychology
- Developmental psychopathology
- Embodied and embedded cognition
- Environmental/conservation psychology
- Evolutionary psychology
- Family conflict
- Gender and leadership
- Health psychology
- Intelligence
- Language and bilingualism
- Mating
- Memory and cognition
- Political psychology
- Sex differences/similarities research
- Social relationships in infants
- Students' goals, learning approaches, and achievement
- Work psychology
You can learn more about our faculty's research interests here.
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Psychology Graduate Program
JFT 316
SUNY New Paltz
600 Hawk Drive
New Paltz, NY 12561-2440
(845) 257-3467
email: gradpsych@newpaltz.edu
