Psychology Career Resources

Help solve real world problems

Explain social issues, address pressing societal needs, and inform public policy or resolve interpersonal and intercultural conflicts using psychological principles

Create and promote interventions in applied settings like schools, hospitals, communities, or companies

Compare and contrast psychology with other disciplines (e.g., biology, economics, political science), including identifying the potential contribution of psychology to collaborations and other fields

Reduce common logical fallacies and biases in thinking that get in the way of accurate conclusions and predictions

Read and summarize complex ideas from psychological sources accurately

Identify reliable and generalizable sources of information

Become an informed consumer of research, able to critique unsupported claims about mental health, thinking, emotions, social interactions, cause and effect, and many other psychological topics

Describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology

Use theories to explain and predict behavior

Describe the complexity of the human experience on many levels (cellular, individual, group/system, societal/cultural)

Analyze differences and similarities in behavior and mental processes within and across people and animals

Examine how social, cultural, environmental, and international contexts influence individual differences

Develop a working knowledge of psychology’s major subdisciplines and domains

Become aware of important aspects of history of psychology, central concerns, methods, and theoretical conflicts

Use scientific reasoning, rather than anecdotes to understand psychological phenomena

Understand complex statistical findings and graphs in the context of their level of statistical significance, including the influence of effect size, and explain these findings using common language

Develop innovative and integrative thinking and problem solving

Interpret, design, and conduct basic or more complex psychological research

Recognize the systemic influences of sociocultural, theoretical, and personal biases on the research process and design studies that take the effects of sociocultural factors into effects