2023-2024 Brenau University Catalog 
    
    Dec 21, 2024  
2023-2024 Brenau University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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PY 927 - Social Psychology and Social Neuroscience

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This course designed as a comprehensive survey course of theory and research in social psychology. The goal of this course is to explain how one’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of other people. Topics to be studied include the self, social perception, social cognition and information processing, attitudes and persuasion, prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination, social influence and group behavior, romantic relationships, aggressive behavior, helping behavior, and applied social psychology. Throughout the course, students will be encouraged to think about how research in social psychology can shed light on events going on around the world and in one’s own lives and how it can help to better human existence.  In addition, this course provides an overview of topics in the emerging field of Social Neuroscience. We will focus on how theories and methods of neuroscience may be used to address classic questions of social psychology from new and informative angles. The goal of this course is to give students a broad background in social neuroscience research and methods so that students may (a) be a critical consumer of this literature, (b) broaden the way you think about connections between the mind, brain, and behavior in the context of the social world, and (c) most importantly, apply these ideas to inform one’s own ideas and future research in psychology.



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