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    Peaceful Learner got a reaction from santei in PhD in Social Psychology without BA/MA in Psychology   
    I think you absolutely have a chance mainly because very well respected social psychological scholars are thriving in research fields related to business and consumer behavior, and your experience may be seen as adding something new to their program.  As a result, it will be most important for you to clearly outline your interest in the field of psychology.   From your description, it sounds like social psychology and/or judgment and decision-making programs may suit you well.
     
         Accordingly, it may be beneficial for you to check out the trajectories and research interest of the faculty members in (Please note: Although these programs provide doctoral training in business and behavioral science, the listed faculty all have PhD's in social psychology or a closely related judgment and decision making science) the University of Chicago School of Business and Behavioral Science--(e.g., Eugene Curuso, Nicholas Epley, Jane Risen, Wilhelm Hoffman, Ayelet Fishbach, and Christopher K. Hsee), the Northwestern Kellog School of Business --http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/-- (e.g., Derek Rucker, Galen Bodenhausen--actually in the Psychology department, Ulf Bockenholt), and the Stanford's Graduate School of Business --http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/ztormala-- (e.g., Dr. S. Christian Wheeler & Zakarary Tormala).  Overall, the University of Chicago's social psychology program has a lot of the faculty with dual professorship appointments in business and psychology.
     
          I say all this to say that you can take a few approaches.  One approach is that you can use their research interest to make a link in your statement of purpose that illustrates how your interest coincide with social psychology and JDM (and how you've fallen in love with the field, blah blah).  Another approach would be to apply to professors at those or similar business programs who did their doctoral training in psychology.  IMHO, I would look at those social psychologist in the previously listed business programs as a starting point to your faculty and program search as there are wonderful non-business faculty who focus on what you're interested in.  Maybe take a look at Dr. Galen Bodenhausen at Northwestern as he is actually an advising faculty member in social psychology with interests in implicit/explicit, culture, and consumer behavior research (I thinki).  Although you probably already know this and it may not be helpful, also try going to socialpsychology.org. There, you will find PhD program rankings to some of the top programs and links to the faculty's research interests.  As a starting point, I know that  Northwestern, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Chicago, University of Rochester, University of British Columbia, UCLA, and Cal-Berkley have faculty that focus on some of the things that you're interested in.
     
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    Peaceful Learner got a reaction from kaister in Interview Thread - Social and Quant   
    Well...this news is EXTREMELY disappointing to read (sigh).  I did, however, have an understanding that few profs at Northwestern (the purple dream as I've been calling it) were reviewing new applicants with the intent to accept.  Northwestern's program and profs are really awesome from the outside looking in and it seems as though it will remain that way. Watson, best of luck to you during the rest of your journey and thank you for the info.  I guess the fantasies of being sleeped deprived in Evanston are ostensibly over.  Just tell me one thing: when you walk through the department is the Tron Legacy soundtrack song, "The Son of Flynn," or the A Beautiful Mind soundtrack song, "A Kaleidoscope of Mathematics," playing as you feverishly write a novel experiment idea in your notebook on your way to a 'brown-bag' like they do in my daydreams (since submitting my dreams/daydreams are really weird). Wait--don't tell me. Some things are best left to the imagination. I don't know about anyone else, but one of the main reasons I can't wait to hear about admissions decisions is so that my mind will stop creating weird dreams and daydreams about being in grad school.  I'm sure if we receive the privilege of being admitted we will dream about getting out at some point in the near future.
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