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>From: "Shearon, Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Hmmm. So you were not a psychology major? I was and I believe almost everyone
>I know who have obtained a PhD in psychology were also which seems to
>contradict your conclusion. Do you have any data, or is it just an honest
>feeling, that psychology majors do not pursue psychology or a related field in
>their jobs...
No research, but in my most recent experience, although the majority of our
graduates don't go on to graduate school, about 1/3 of them do, primarily in
social work. Second highest is in Clinical (mostly at proprietary programs)
and one in Social Psychology at a major midwestern university. Others have
entry level jobs which are psychology related, and from our two most recent
graduating classes, two students have gone back to school in nursing (one wants
to become a psychiatric nurse practitioner).
In my clinical grad school cohort (many years ago at Purdue University) there
were 22 students, 3 of whom were not psych majors. One had been "pre med" and
one had been political science. The third was an English major from Harvard
who had taken two psych courses as an undergrad - Intro and Abnormal.
Bob Wildblood, PhD, HSPP
Lecturer in Psychology
Indiana University Kokomo
Kokomo, IN 46904-9003
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We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but
do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach. -Bertrand
Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970)
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