What jobs can you get with a psychology degree where you don't have to....

deal with people? I am interested in psychology but I do not want to be a psychiatrist and talk to people

The only thing i can think of is a reasearch place. In psychology usually you have to deal with people

biological reasearch.

The only thing i can think of is a reasearch place. In psychology usually you have to deal with people

Slashfan10

yes, psychology might not have been the best choice of majors if you dont want to deal with people.

Even research jobs will have you dealing with people, i.e. running trials, sampling panels, asking for feedback, etc.

Face it, OT, for 8 hours a day youre gonna have to deal with people at a job. Try to make the most of it :)

research, or you can do testing...regardless you have to have at least a masters....testing isnt bad, you don't have to do therapy with the person, just seem them long enough to do some tests then write up a report...

Even with a psychology degree, you can't be a clinical psychologist. That requires more degrees, I think. I think what you can do is research and writing papers on stuff.PannicAtack

deal with people? I am interested in psychology but I do not want to be a psychiatrist and talk to people

chocobo7000

I take it you mean - not waiting to deal with ppl with problems.

Maybe work for a recruitment agency - psychological testing of employees and potential employees is becoming standard practice for certain businesses.

Deal with animals, there is a lot to be learned about animal phychology.

Well, to even get a job in the psychology field, you'll need at least a Master's. And if you want a serious job, you'll need your doctorate. There was some statistic (I'm sure you can find it) that said only about 5-10% of people with a BA in psychology actually have a job in the field.

And no, you can't avoid people if you're in the field. Go with something more research-based, like cognitive neuroscience.

You can flip burgers.

With a BA/BS in psychology you can't really do anything except get jobs whose only educational requirement is "have a college degree". To do anything psychology-related you would have to get a graduate degree, at least a master's. To do research you need a Ph.D. and there's no way around that unless you just want to be a lowly lab assistant for the rest of your life (spoiler alert: you don't).

The only fields in psychology that I'm aware of that keep you away from human contact as much as possible are I/O psychology and research to a certain extent. I/O psych makes good money ($100k+), requires at least a master's degree, and basically consists of you telling companies how to better dominate their employeees, create more ergonomic products, etc. I'd imagine you could also do some stuff with marketing as well.

Research will allow you to avoid people more than other jobs (you don't have to interact with your subjects as long as you get a bunch of undergrads to run your experiments for you) but you will still have to interact with other researchers, your graduate students, the undergrad interns in your lab, and the undergrads and grads you teach classes to. The good news is that you can totally BS all the social interaction for all of those groups except for the other researchers. But don't worry because academia is chock full of people who have almost no social skills whatsoever so all of that interaction is almost entirely limited to talking about research.

deal with people? I am interested in psychology but I do not want to be a psychiatrist and talk to people

chocobo7000