Psychology

This course focuses on developmental psychology including affective, emotional, and social development throughout the life cycle.  

This course gives non-psychology students an understanding of the theories, research, and applications in current business psychology. Topics include an introduction to business psychology, research methods, selection methods, trait predictors of work output, biodata methods and their limitations, work attitudes and values, theories of work motivation, job satisfaction, stress at work, learning and training on the job, group dynamics, decision making, leaders and leadership, working abroad, and the future of work.

The course focuses on the different factors underlying consumers’ food behaviors. Centrally in the course are theories on determinants of food consumption, strategies to change behavior, and social significance and meaning of food. Social, cultural, cognitive, developmental, psychophysiological and neuroeconomic approaches as well as theory of human action and of decision making processes are discussed.

This is an introductory course for discussing the integration among neural, mental, and social processes. The class intends to cover, but may not exhaust, following topics on the mind and brain: research history; research methods and basic issues; function of the basic operation of the unit and integration; evolution and development; message input - feeling, perception, and attention; the symbol of mind and brain processing - language and thought; plasticity - learning and memory; the likes and dislikes with the brain - emotional; motivation and will; output - activities; consciousness; character; heart and brain in groups - social cognition and behavior; the heart and brain of the sick - mental illness; heart and brain simulation - neural networks and artificial intelligence.