PSYC 9000 (Doctoral Thesis) represents the pinnacle of your graduate training in the School of Psychology. This supervised research sequence spans the final years of your doctoral journey, culminating in the independent design, execution, and defense of a major, original empirical contribution to the field of Psychology. Building upon the foundational skills developed during your Master's thesis, the dissertation demands a higher level of theoretical sophistication, methodological rigor, and scientific autonomy.