Learning objectives
The course aims at highlighting some key answers that social psychology has provided with respect to the following questions:
How do people make a judgment about social phenomena (attitudes, stereotypes, schemas)?
- How do people form the impression of others and explain their behavior? (naive theories, social perception, attribution)
- How do people form a self-image (self concept)?
- How do people represent themselves and others as part of social categories and groups (social identity, groups, and intergroup relations)?
- How do people change their behavior in the presence of others? (aggression, altruism)
- How do people change opinions, images and representations in the presence of others? (persuasion, social influence)
- How do people form an image of social objects? (Social representations)