Emotion is one of the most quickly growing areas of research in psychology.
Emotion is also one of the most cross-disciplinary topics in psychology.
This class attempts to address both the growing interest and breadth of this area. The course surveys major theories and issues in emotion, with an emphasis on classic, theoretical pieces and contemporary empirical pieces. In addition to surveying the major classes of emotion theories, the class discusses a number of fundamental emotion questions, such as whether there are universal emotions, the existence of emotion-specific physiological patterns, and the primacy of emotion vs. cognition. The class is intended to be a survey of classic as well as more recent readings that span the discipline of social psychology. The goal is for students to acquire a knowledge of a broad range of topics, and to aid in their thinking of their own research in perhaps a new way as a result of the exposure received to these various topics.