PSY X94V PSY 394V Topics in Seminars in Social and Personality Psychology 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Doctoral
Topic 1: Current Topics in Social and Personality Psychology.
Topic 2: Achievement Motives and Behavior.
Topic 3: Cross-Cultural Psychology.
Topic 4: Individualism and Collectivism.
Topic 5: Motivation.
Topic 6: The Self.
Topic 7: Social Stereotypes.
Topic 8: Psychosomatic Processes. Survey of theories and findings concerning the links between psychological states and health. Includes emotion, stress, coping, psychoneuroimmunology, disclosure, and the social correlates of health and illness.
Topic 9: Language and Personality. An exploration into computer-based methods used to study the links between word use and basic social and personality processes.
Topic 10: Close Relationships. Social psychological theory and research on the topic of close relationships.
Topic 11: Social Neuroscience. Introduction to psychological and neural foundational concepts in social neuroscience. Surveys current work in the field to examine how it may or may not contribute to the study of social psychology.
Topic 12: Self and Identity. Broad overview of self-related theory and research, with an emphasis on recent developments in the field. Includes the nature and structure of the self and forms of self-knowledge. Also explores the relationship between the self and group processes, close relationships, and gender. Psychology 394V (Topic: Self and Identity) and 394V (Topic 12) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Topic 13: Theory and Explanation in Social Psychology. Examine different theoretical approaches in social psychology and the ability to critically evaluate the range and the limits of social psychological explanations from a meta-theoretical perspective. Address meta-theoretical principles in the construction and evaluation of social psychological theories, classic and contemporary approaches to understanding social psychological phenomena, and current directions in social psychological theorizing. Psychology 394V (Topic: Theory and Explanation in Social Psychology) and 394V (Topic 13) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.