Question: why did you choose to become a phsycologist

Bogdana Huma answered on 17 Jun 2019:

I chose to become a psychologist while I was in high school because I thought (based on the movies I’d seen) it mainly meant talking to people about their problems and helping them find solutions
that worked for them (what a counselling psychologist does). After I started studied psychology at university, I quickly discovered that there are many other ‘flavours’ of psychology and I could be working, say, with children and parents (educational psychologist) or with athletes (sport psychologists). In my second undergraduate year I had a module on social psychology (that focuses on group dynamics and on how our actions influence and are influenced by others around us) and I was really fascinated by this domain which covers topics such as aggression, prosocial behaviour, first impressions, stereotypes and prejudice, conformity, obedience, persuasion and so many others. I then decided I wanted to be a social psychologist, which I went on to do.