Msu Honors College

William J. Chopik is an assistant professor in the Michigan State University Department of Psychology. Chopik is a social-personality psychologist interested in how relationships and the people in them change over time. His research focuses on how factors both inside (such as biological and hormonal) and outside (such as social roles and geography) of people influence their approach to social relationships. His work examines phenomena as broad as how relationships and social institutions shape development and as focused as the hormonal mechanisms that underlie love and intimacy. Chopik earned his doctorate from the University of Michigan.