Social Psychology 1

Social psychology is the scientific study of how people's thinking, feeling and behaviour are influenced by other people. Major theoretical perspectives in social psychology cover the sociocultural, the evoutionary, social learning and the social cognitive, and these perspectives are used in describing and explaining social behaviour.

Knowledge:
The student has developed a basic overview of the central perspectives in social psychology including the sociocultural, the evolutionary, social learning theory, and social cognitive.
The student has obtained basic knowledge of spesific research fields including how we think about ourselves and the social world, attitudes and social influences, prejudice, discrimination and conflicts, interpersonal attraction, prosocial and aggressive behaviour.

Skills:
The student is able to account for and to discuss how people's behaviour and cognitions can be explained from different perspectives in social psychology.

General competence:
The student has developed an understanding of (1) how to study people in social situations, and (2) how different social factors influence people's cognitions, emotions and behaviour.

Lectures 2 hours per week, colloquium.
Some of the lectures might be given in english.