Social Psychology

Empathy, attraction, prejudice, aggression, conformity, cooperation, domination, self-presentation and identity-formation - these are some basic processes in social life. Paying detailed attention to everyday social interaction and interpersonal relations, this subject examines the inextricable relations between emotions, motives and thoughts, and the social worlds of individuals and groups. The subject considers a wide array of empirical phenomena from multiple theoretical perspectives and equips students with tools for analysing the processes through which human beings construct their social realities, which in turn shape their notions of selfhood and collective identities vis-a-vis others.