Human Factors/Industrial Psychology, PhD

Human factors psychology is an interdisciplinary field that discovers and applies information about human behavior, abilities, limitations, and other characteristics to the design and evaluation of products, systems, jobs, tools, and environments for enhancing productive, safe, and comfortable human use. General information about the discipline may be found at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society website.The Human Factors program in Wright State University Department of Psychology is accredited by Human Factors Ergonomics Society.Human factors psychology at Wright State University emphasizes that human factors and industrialorganizational (IO) psychologists work best together to produce results that neither specialty could achieve alone. Students who major in human factors have industrial organizational psychology, as a minor area of focus. Our program is designed to foster an understanding of the relationships between both specialties. Students prepare for this by learning the fundamentals of each specialty then interacting with one another in a wide variety of basic and applied research settings. This unique, multidimensional education prepares students for careers in business and industry as well as research, teaching, government, and consulting.