 Hello, welcome. My name is Seger Breugermans, and I'm going to tell you something about the minor track social psychology in the research master at Tilburg University. If all is well, you have had general information about the research master in previous videos. So what we're going to do now, in the coming two or three minutes, is to say something about what you can expect in the specific minor social psychology. What's important to know is that when you do a research master, you will mostly be working with researchers. So let's first have a look at who you will be working with. The social psychology group is hard to define. It's hard to give a single topic that unites everybody. Of course, everybody has their own expertise. But if we would want to describe them in a single way, it would best be described as social decision-making. That is the program, the research program that you will find here. By social decision-making, we mean how social situations influence people's decision-making, how people's decision-making influences social situations, and all the facets that come to the play when people interact with each other in social situations. As you can expect, social psychology is the main domain that is used by researchers to study social decision-making. But don't be fooled. This is not the only domain. Researchers in our department also focus at economic, organizational, evolutionary, cultural, political psychology, and even adjacent disciplines, such as sociology, decision-making, and behavioral economics. This is important to know because if you come to study with us, which you of course hope, you will interact with people who look at social decision-making from all these diverse areas. So you will learn a lot not only about social psychology, but also about these adjacent disciplines. This interdisciplinarity can also be found in our educational track. So apart from the general courses, there's four courses that you can choose within the social psychology track that are specific for that track. So let's have a look at them. Here they are. The first three courses more or less represent behavior, cognition, and effects. So the three foundations of social psychology. The first course, behavioral decision-making, is not only by decision-making in a social psychological context, but also more in a general sense. So we also discuss rational economic models, deviation from rational economic models, so like in behavioral economics. We discuss things like hyper-choice. So if you're now considering this research master, how many other research masters should you consider? 10, 20, what makes you most happy? What gives you the best outcomes? Social cognition focuses more on, as it says, cognitions. So how do we think about the world? Not only in cognitive terms, but also in the terms of where these cognitions are grounded in our embodiment, in our physiological system, in our brain. The courses Emotional Motivation and Advanced Cross-Cultural Psychology are electives. So you could choose one of both, or if you really want to, of course, you can choose both. Emotional Motivation focuses on emotions. Emotions as a basic drive, motivational drives of our behavior. So that differs from the social cognition part, which more focus on cognitions. It also focuses on the function of emotions, especially the interpersonal functions. Remember social decision-making. If you would like to focus on cross-cultural psychology, we offer a course on Advanced Cross-Cultural Psychology, which basically goes deep into questions such as, are psychological processes the same or different across cultures? How can we establish that? And what should we do with that? So this gives you a flavor of the minor specific courses that you will have. But of course, that is not the only thing. The most important thing is to develop yourself. This is what the Research Master is all about. So the courses can give you a very nice overview of current literature. You will discuss things in the courses with your students, with your peers. You will develop your own ideas. But the main thing is to develop your own set of knowledge and skills as an academic. And that you do in the traineeships, the first year paper, in the master thesis. And you will do those things under guidance of established researchers. You want to know who these researchers are? You can look at our staff at this website. And you will see that we have a vibrant young group, all established academics, all experts, all very young and enthusiastic. And we also have some seasoned researchers who are as enthusiastic, but in addition are very wise and can guide you through the main things in research. So we hope to be able to welcome you some year, maybe this year, maybe next year at our Sociology Group. We're very enthusiastic about it and we hope you are as well. Thank you.