Analyze problems in everyday life from an experimental personality and social psychological perspective by analysis of cultural background, immediate situation, dynamic tension, and construal by actors. Analyze communication and decision problems in terms of everyday social cognition with emphasis upon current knowledge on use of prototypes and stereotypes with the existing cognitive biases and heuristic processing. Gain a new perspective on the nature of personality theories and their use in applied work. Course Perspective Mainstream social psychology attempts to explain the everyday behavior of the individual within the social sphere. These evolutionary psychology and cultural psychology are linked.
Evolutionary psychologists attempt to determine cross-cultural consistent behaviors.
Given these different perspectives I will try to insure that we consider the issue from social psychological, evolutionary psychology, and cultural or SSM viewpoint. An applied perspective . Personality theories workbook . Harcourt College Publishers Handouts and assigned readings. The course is divided into several major topic areas that match the goals we seek to reach.