Social Psychology.

Catalog description

Social Psychologists focus on the theoretical and experimental investigations of social processes. They ask questions like: Why do we tend to conform when faced with social pressures from others? Are we adept at explaining and predicting people's behaviors and attitudes? Are there strategies for improving our interpersonal relationships and reducing our stereotypes and prejudices? This course will help students develop the skills needed to think like a social psychologist. This course will cover social psychology's history and its philosophical perspectives, as well as theories, methodologies, and experimental research. Students will learn how people interpret social situations, how different cultures engage in social interaction, how people think during social engagement, and the role of emotions in our social lives. Finally, this course will help students think more critically about issues in psychology and assist them in implementing what they learn in this course to their own life.