PhD Opportunities in Psychology in United States

The University of California, Berkeley offers a research-focused Business Administration PhD through the Berkeley Haas PhD Program. The program provides advanced doctoral training across six fields: Accounting, Business and Public Policy, Finance, Marketing, Management of Organizations, and Real Estate. Students choose a field when applying, and that choice shapes their coursework and future academic specialization. Marketing includes Consumer Behavior and Quantitative tracks, while Management o...

This internship/fellowship is hosted by the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD), the Department of Defense’s lead laboratory for medical chemical defense research. The project sits within a multidisciplinary research environment focused on chemical and acute non-kinetic threats and on developing medical countermeasures to prevent or treat their effects. Participants work under mentor guidance as part of a team studying toxic bioeffects and evaluating novel and sta...

Rochester Institute of Technology is inviting applications for a PhD position in the Computing and Information Sciences program, joining the laboratory of Assistant Professor Marco Antonio Pinto Orellana. The position focuses on computational neuroscience at the intersection of signal processing, statistics and artificial intelligence. The lab develops explainable models of how information flows through the brain across frequency bands and different imaging modalities. The research also examines...

Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is offering a part-time graduate internship in sociocognitive modeling focused on the characterization and analysis of information operations and influence. The project sits within the 711th Human Performance Wing and brings interns into a research environment that combines computational modeling, theory-driven social science, and practical questions about how information spreads and affects behavior. The work centers on understanding how information propagat...

The Behavior Change for Good (BCFG) Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania is recruiting a pre-doctoral research specialist to support large-scale, real-world experiments aimed at promoting behavior change across multiple domains. The project is led by Professors Katherine Milkman and Angela Duckworth and sits within the Wharton School, where the team works with major organizational partners and reaches large populations through randomized field experiments. The appointed research speciali...

Texas A&M University is seeking a PhD student for an enology and sensory science project beginning in January 2027. The research will address wine quality issues relevant to the Texas wine industry through applied work combining wine chemistry, sensory evaluation, and fermentation science. Under the guidance of Dr. Andreea Botezatu in the Department of Horticultural Sciences, the student will investigate factors affecting wine quality and contribute to research with direct relevance to regional ...

Illinois State University is seeking graduate students for research in urban animal cognition, wildlife behavior, movement ecology, and human-wildlife interactions . The research group led by Dr. Lauren Stanton examines how animals perceive, learn about, and respond to human-altered environments, with particular interest in individual differences, early-life experience, social learning, cultural transmission, and strategies for coexistence between people and urban wildlife. Both openings are con...

Elisa Kreiss is recruiting a PhD student to join the UCLA Communication department and the UCLA NLP group at the University of California, Los Angeles. The research sits at the intersection of computational linguistics, natural language processing, multimodal machine learning, and cognitive science. The project explores how models learn from text and image data and how that learning gives rise to the behaviors observed in trained models. Possible research directions include studying how post-tra...

The University of California, Berkeley’s African Diaspora Studies PhD explores the lives, cultures, and social organization of people of African descent across Africa, North America, and the Caribbean. The program takes a multidisciplinary approach to race and its international and national divisions. Students engage with questions of development and underdevelopment, domination and power, self-determination, cooperation, identity construction, marginality, territoriality, and the role of race i...