Master's specialisationPsychology: Behaviour Change
Are you interested in what determines human behaviour and how we can change it? Do you ever wonder what motivates us as human beings? Would you like to research this in a scientific way and apply your knowledge in practice? This Master's is for you!
Something for you?
- You will become an expert with profound insight into the driving force behind people's behaviour.
- You are motivated by having an impact on society with your applied research.
- You will take on an actual case from the field for which you develop an intervention to change behaviour.
- Your see yourself working as a graduate psychologist in practice, with opportunities at commercial clients, government agencies or charities.
Admission requirements
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- Main language
- English (100%)
- Study duration
- 1 year (60 EC)
- Start
- September
- Contact hours
- 10, attendance required
- Programme format
- Full time
- Degree
- Master of Science, specialisation of Psychology
- Faculty
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- CROHO code
- 60260
- Accreditation
- NVAO
What will you learn
The study programme focusses on both theory and practice and will train you to become a practice-based researcher. You study scientific theory to become a behavioural expert and learn how to implement your knowledge by developing and testing behaviour change interventions in practice. Your graduation assignment is a research project, consisting of an internship and thesis in a domain of your choice. The programme has a clear and singular goal: for you to become a scientific expert of behaviour change in all its forms.
Study programme
Future career opportunities
Behaviour is being increasingly examined in different areas within various organisations and companies. These are developments that bode well for your future professional prospects. Furthermore, successful completion of this programme will provide you with the opportunity to work in a wide range of areas and professions.
Graduates have found work in many different professions, e.g. as advertising or marketing expert (both online and offline), information officer, communication consultant, project manager, researcher, prevention expert, health promoter or policy officer in local, provincial or national government. You could also consider doing a government or corporate traineeship.
Career prospectsResearch
Since human behaviour plays a role in so many domains, the research topics you can work on in Behaviour Change are very diverse. To give you some inspiration, here are some of the projects and interventions our students have been working on:
- Increasing the turnout rate among blood donors
- Reducing smartphone use amongst students to increase well-being
- Increasing the use of car-sharing services in The Hague
- Motivating beach visitors to not leave any trash
- Increasing diversity acceptance at a military base
Questions about this programme?
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If you are going to follow this Master's programme, you will pay an annual tuition fee. There are different tuition rates. The amount depends on your personal situation.
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