Psychology

This course provides students with an opportunity to gain experience and skills of being an research assistant in a psychology research lab.

This course provides students interested in Forensic Psychology and Law with an introduction to topics typical for this field. Examples of such topics are paraphilic disorders, substance use disorder, child abuse, the fallibility of eyewitness memory, lie detection, and alcohol-related amnesia. In each tutorial, research articles and case material descriptions related to a theme are studied and discussed. The examination consists of writing a paper about a topic related to the field of Forensic Psychology or Psychology and Law and active participation during the tutorials through giving presentations and actively discussing the reading materials.

This course examines the theory and research on the evolution of the human mind, with emphasis on implications for cognition and behavior in contemporary environments.

This course demonstrates how social psychology can illuminate our understanding of social relationships and processes. It introduces the history, theories, and methods of social psychology and encourages a critical view of social psychological research. The course reviews classic and recent social psychology studies on social influence, interpersonal attraction, social cognition, aggression, and prejudice. Prerequisites for this course include Introduction to Psychology and Introduction to Research.

This course provides an overview of theory and research on close relationships. With an emphasis on empirical evidence, students focus on how relationship dynamics meaningfully influence human psychology, and vice versa. Students examine how relationship processes relate to multiple areas of psychology (e.g., biological, cognitive, developmental, social), with particular attention to the social level.