Course description

Not offered in 2010. This course provides an overview of theoretical and empirical approaches to emotion. Topics covered include historical approaches to studying emotion; conceptual and operational definitions; functions of emotion; emotion regulation; emotion in social relations (including inter-personal, intra-group and inter-group levels of analysis); gender and cultural differences in emotion; and implications of emotion for social cognition, attitudes and beheaviour (at inter-personal and inter-group levels). The final week provides an integrative summary of the material and highlights directions for future research.

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