Psykologi: Avancerad socialpsykologi I

The course "Advanced social psychology I" provides course participants with an in-depth perspective on contemporary social psychological research, which investigates how humans’ thoughts, emotions and behavior relate to social contexts. Social psychology is a broad field of research and spans over topics such as social categorization of ourselves (identity) and others (ingroups vs. outgroup), relationships between groups (prejudice, helping, aggression), and individuals (love, sexuality, hate), and influence between the group and the individual (power, norms). 

The course applies active pedagogy where the students choose the themes for the course literature, works in a group to prepare, and give one lecture on a chosen theme in class, and actively participate in classroom discussions. This part of the course gives its participants a broad overlook of current social psychological theory and methods as well as practice in analyzing, applying and in communicating research. Additionally, each course participant individually writes a short, theoretical (no data collection) literature review on a narrowly defined social psychological topic of their choice. The aim of this part of the course is to achieve an in-depth understanding of a subset of social psychological research as well as training in applying an analytical, critical perspective on the research and to reflect on its’ applications.