Syllabus
Aims: To provide students with knowledge of main approaches, empirical findings and methods of contemporary social psychology.
Contents:
* 8.Individual in social psychology:
?social cognition (first impression, social stereotypes, causal attributions)
?study of emotions in social psychology
?study of motivation in social psychology
?social attitudes: their theories and measurement
* 9.Interpersonal phenomena:
?Interaction and communication:
?social influences
?social interaction
?aggression and violence
?prosocial behavior and altruism
?compliance
?authority and obedience
?verbal communication and persuasion
?nonverbal communication
?impression management and self-presentation
?Interpersonal relationships:
?definitions and classifications of relationships
?motivations of relationships' formation
?personality and interpersonal relationships
?developmental stages of interpersonal relationships
* 10.Social groups:
?Small social groups:
?social facilitation
?social loafing
?conformity
?group's problem solving
?brainstorming
?group's decision-making
?group learning
?negotiations and bargaining
?group leadership
?Crowd and mass:
?deindividualization
?individual in crowd
* 11.Intergroups' phenomena:
?Social cognition:
?ethnocentrism
?stereotypes, prejudices, discrimination
?Interaction and relationships among groups:
?inovation
?mass communication
?brainwashing
?intergroups' conflicts and strategies of solutions
* 12.Socialization, enculturation and moral development of personality
* 13.Subject and history of social psychology
* 14.Methods social psychology.
Annotation
Social Psychology
The main themes are social perception, causal attribution, social stereotypes, cognitive dissonance, achievement motivation, emotions, aggression and violence, prosocial and altruistic behavior, attitudes, values, social influence, conformity, compliance, obedience, persuasion, nonverbal communication, interpersonal relationships, group structure, group dynamics, intergroup relations, personality and social structure, collective behavior.