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What is IRSP?
Humans are social animals whose lives are powerfully shaped by their relations with friends, family, teachers, co-workers, and many others. Currently, a new interdisciplinary science of relationships is emerging that draws on many intellectual traditions, uses an array of increasingly sophisticated research methods, and seeks to integrate knowledge across different levels of analysis.
In July 2005, UCLA launched a unique doctoral program to train future leaders in relationship science. With funding from the National Science Foundation, the UCLA Interdisciplinary Relationship Science Program (IRSP) trains students in anthropology, education, psychology and sociology for careers as research scientists studying social relationships from a multidisciplinary perspective. We invite you to learn more about us.
Contact the IRSP Program Coordinator
irsp@ucla.edu
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What's New?
July 2008 Prof. Greg Bryant and IRSP Associate Director Martie Haselton discuss their research on mother-infant communication and the role of the voice in attraction in a BBC radio special, Life's Soundtrack.
Click here to listen the file may take a few seconds to load
July 2008 Twelve IRSP graduate trainees present their work at the IARR Annual Conference in Providence, RI, July 17-20
Click here to read abstracts
July 2008 Prof. Tom Bradbury (UCLA Psychology) cited in USA Today: Married couples who play together, stay together
click here to read the article
June 2008 IRSP Trainee Justin Lavner published an article on "Coming to Terms With Coming Out: Review and Recommendations for Family Systems-Focused Research", in the Journal of Family Psychology
click here to download a PDF copy of the article
May 2008 IRSP trainee Esther Friedman presents a paper on "Education of Children and Differential Mortality of Parents: Do Parents Benefit from Their Chldren's Attainments?" at the RC 28 International Conference on Social Stratification and Mobility in Florence, Italy (with Prof. Rob Mare)
February 2008 IRSP trainee Kimberly Griffin has accepted a faculty position in the Department of Education Policy Studies at the Pennsylvania State University for fall 2008.
click here for more
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Featured Profile:
The FPR-UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development (CBD) fosters training and research at UCLA to explore how culture and social relations inform brain development, how the brain organizes cultural and social development, and how development gives rise to a cultural brain. At the same time, we aim to understand how the brain makes it natural to acquire, use, and create culture; how development builds on neurally mediated socio-cultural practices; how social relations are culturally informed; how culture is acquired in social interaction; and, how culture and social relations are constructed through neurally potentiated developmental processes.
Visit CBD.
We regularly feature a research center or organization dedicated to research on relationships. Email the IRSP coordinator if you would like to suggest a future profilee.
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