心理学哲学博士

心理学提供了六个重点领域（称为领域组）：生物学，临床，认知和认知神经科学，发育，知觉以及社会和人格。尽管各个小组之间存在大量的协作与互动，但是每个集中领域对研究生学习都有其自己的要求，并且学生通常被录取为这些集中领域之一。尽管大多数即将毕业的研究生的兴趣都属于这六个领域，但有些则不在。在顶尖的部门中，可以预料到某些学生的兴趣会跨学科领域组和/或与校园中的其他程序交互，因为心理学的边界是不断变化的。该计划的一项创新功能是个性化研究生专业，专为那些在当前区域组结构中找不到合适的职位而希望跨越区域组线和/或将其
Psychology offers six areas of concentration (known as area groups): biological, clinical, cognitive and cognitive neuroscience, developmental, perception, and social and personality. Although there is a good deal of collaboration and interaction across groups, each area of concentration has its own requirements for graduate study and students are typically admitted into one of these areas of concentration. Although most incoming graduate students' interests fall within these six areas of concentration, some do not. That some students' interests cut across disciplinary area groups and/or interface with other programs on campus is to be expected in a top-notch department because the boundaries of psychology itself are in flux. An innovative feature of the program is the Individualized Graduate Major designed for those graduate students who do not find a niche in the current area group structure and, instead, wish to cross area group lines and/or incorporate substantial training from other programs in their psychology graduate work. It is important to emphasize that the Individualized Graduate Major leads to a psychology Ph.D. and is not appropriate for students whose graduate study does not emphasize psychological science. Such students are advised to pursue a Ph.D. in another program or a committee degree.