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Undergraduate Programs

Social Psychology is the study of human behaviour. How do people come to be who they are? How do people think about, influence and relate to one another? How do individuals experience their social realities? These are the broad questions that we strive to answer.

Students explore a wide range of themes, including relationships and sexuality, mental health and well-being, self-presentation and impression management, identity, emotions, social interaction, culture, conformity and obedience, deviance and labeling, social networking, and collective action and social movements.

Highlighted Undergraduate Courses

This course explores social psychological theories and research on romantic relationships, friendships, and family relations. Topics include relationship initiation, maintenance, and dissolution, and links between relationship processes and psychopathology.

This course explores theoretical and clinical perspectives on couple and family counselling, cognitive behavioural therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy, narrative therapy, trauma-informed therapy and dialectical behaviour therapy.