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Social Psychology 1: Intraindividual and Interpersonal Behaviour

Course leader: Linda Luckhurst
linda.luckhurst@buckingham.ac.uk
One term (15 units)

This course is taken at the end of the first year and introduces students to key approaches and issues in intraindividual and interpersonal social psychology.

The aims are to provide students with a scientific understanding of how we think about, construct and evaluate the social world, social identity and social interaction.

On completion of the course students should have acquired a sound understanding of the intraindividual and interpersonal social psychological areas covered in this course. In addition, students should be able to organise relevant material effectively and write / present coherently about theoretical and empirical issues in social psychology.

It contains the following topic areas:

• Social cognition and social perception
• Attribution and attribution biases
• Self and identity
• Attitudes
• Persuasion and attitude change
• Communication and language
• Prosocial behaviour and aggression
• Liking and loving

The course is assessed by both course work (40%) and written examination (60%)

Main texts:

• Hewstone, M. & W. Stroebe (eds). Introduction to social psychology: a European perspective (3rd ed., Oxford: Blackwell, 2001). ISBN: 978-0-631-20437-7.
• Hogg, M.A. & G.M. Vaughan. Social psychology (3rd ed., London: Prentice Hall, 2002). ISBN: 978-0-13-033632-7.
• Lord, C.G. Social psychology (London: Harcourt Brace, 1997). ISBN: 978-0-03-055133-1.