"Evolutionary psychology, environments that support (or undermine) reasonable behavior, cognitive maps and the structure of knowledge; adaptive connectionist models; attention and mental fatigue; expertise and public participation."
I'll have to browse through their Personality and Social Context area to see if they have people filling the other side of my interests.
I wonder if I could get accepted there.
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You should totally apply for an NSF graduate research fellowship (or look into any others that you'd be eligible for). I don't know how the timing works with regard to when you apply to schools, but if you got a fellowship anyone would let you in.
Also remember that once you're in grad school, you can shop around to other schools/programs/internships for opportunities to delve into your other interests, even if they aren't offered at your particular program. So it might not be possible to find professors to cover all your bases at one school, but if you can cover some/most of your bases with one program, there's still plenty of opportunities to figure out the rest later.
I would say that's generally not true of PhD programs. Most would not let you do your thesis research at a different school or with a mentor who is not part their faculty. Of course exceptions are made, but are not looked upon happily in my experience.
Just last week I learned that one of my fellow grad students who had moved to Australia b/c his PI got a job there, was basically kicked out after three years and left with a masters. Not b/c of anything he did, just because they didn't want him to leave in the first place.
And generally you wouldn't have time to do any programs or internships that weren't directly part of your curriculum.
Of course, if you can find a mentor at your school who wants to collaborate with someone at another school who matches your interests, that's totally cool. But not something that I'd go in expecting.
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