PSY 8412 - Social and Personality Psychology

(3 units)

Students will learn to analyze, synthesize and critique research literature on individual behavior in group/social settings and the person-environment interaction. Topics include social cognition, the self, attitudes, attitude change, emotion, emotional expression and nonverbal behavior, prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination, aggression, prosocial behavior, positive psychology, interpersonal relationships, social influence, power, group processes, intergroup relations and conflict, cultural psychology, judgment and decision making, personality traits and the five-factor model, approach and avoidance, cognitive self-regulatory models, psychoanalytic perspectives, mindfulness, adult attachment theory, self-actualization and self-determination.