Overview
What are the key motives that affect people’s reactions to the social world?
Immerse yourself in the psychology of intergroup behaviour, social challenges, attitudes, and persuasion.
Learn how you can leverage psychology to solve real-world problems and create a positive change for individuals, organisations, communities, or society.
Reasons to choose Kent
Taught by world-leading experts, this MSc will equip you with a strong set of skills in research methods, critical thinking, data interpretation and analysis. You will develop and practice communication, problem-solving, and consultancy skills that can be applied in a wide range of settings, preparing you for careers in the non-profit or private sector, or for doctoral studies.
Psychology at Kent is ranked the 1st in the UK and 3rd in the world by the Times Higher Education for research quality (2024 ratings). This means that our teaching and supervision staff are internationally leading researchers, and you will have the opportunity to conduct the most impactful social psychology research for your dissertation. Our research covers all the major themes in social psychology like prejudice, group behaviour, decision making, politics, morality, social emotions, and social change.
Recent dissertation topics include:
- The leader takes it all: Reactions to badly behaved group leaders
- Trust in artificial intelligence
- Social consequences of conspiracy theories
- Narcisissism, political attitudes, and support for democracy
- How do people get involved in social activism?
- Cooperation and decision making in groups and organisations
- Psychological differences between meat-eaters, vegetarians, and vegans
- Ageism, stereotype threat and physical performance among the elderly
- Challenges in cross-sex friendships
- Intergroup dehumanization
- Sexism, masculinity and anti-vegan bias
- Body dissatisfaction and the thin and muscular ideal
- Individual differences in effective animal advocacy
Your future
This MSc programme prepares you for a wide range of careers and employment opportunities. Many of our graduates work in the public sector, the government or non-profit organisations, in leading roles, designing and evaluating policies and programmes in health services, education, environmental or animal protection organisations. They also work in the private sector as social media strategists, consultants, data scientists, managers, marketing directors or as researchers at universities.
The programmes we offer help you to develop general critical, analytic and problem-solving skills that can be applied in a wide range of settings.
Find out more
For more information about the entry requirements and course structure please visit: https://www.kent.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/75/social-psychology