My Passion

Ahhh psychology, the major that all the nosy people choose so they have an excuse for being nosy. I love it. It's like professional gossiping, one of my favorite past times. 

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• Students in my department learn, generally, how to decipher an individual's actions/behavior and figure out why people people do what they do from a psychological standpoint.

• People who get a degree in psychology typically go on to get a master's or doctorate's and become psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, psychiatric physician assistants, etc. While a bachelor's degree can typically land a job as a rehab specialist, psychiatric technician, or a counselor of some sort.

• I love helping people and learning about different mental disorders and learning about what makes people do what they do. Plus I'm a super nosy person so it's perfect.

• Ok so this guy Dr. Richard Friedman is an absolute stud in the psychology world and wrote an for the New York Times. Oh yeah and did I mention he's  a professor of Clinical Psychology at Cornell's Medical College, he's the attending psychiatrist at New York--Presbyterian Hospital, and he's the freaking director of pharmacology at the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic? I am seriously so starstruck writing this right now, I need to calm down.

• Dr. John Allen is another major player in the field of psychology. And guess what, he's a professor HERE at UA! It's crazy, he's been working here since 1992 where he's currently a distinguished professor for the psychology department for the university. Plus he's hosted countless psych conference presentations. He's also interested in researching mood and anxiety disorders, which is pretty much my main passion in psychology. 

• Of course I can't forget Dr. Philip Zimbardo, the father of the controversial "Stanford Prison Experiment" of 73'. He's a serious celebrity in psychology, like Beyonce status, he's been the president of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Western Psychological Association (WPA). He's currently the Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford University and has written numerous books and textbooks on psychology. If I ever met him I would be so tempted to ask for his autograph. Seriously.

• Three leading scholarly journals in psychology are all published from the American Psychological Association and the journals are the Journal of Experimental Psychology, Journal of Rehabilitation Psychology, and the Journal of the American Psychologist.