Social Psychology

Recommended Prerequisites

Specific background knowledge is not required, in addition to the usual skills required of students at reading (Portuguese and English languages) and writing.

Teaching Methods

Interactive lectures with critical analysis of paradigmatic researches.

Learning Outcomes

The Social Psychology curricular unit aims to provide deep knowledge and understanding of the substantive areas of social psychology by developing skills related to critical thinking and theoretical-epistemological reflection.

 

Learning outcomes

By the end of this course unit, students should be able to:

1) identify, describe and evaluate in an accurate and exact way the main systems and theoretical models, empirical contents and research methods of social psychology;

2) know the relevant implications for the psychological/social intervention.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1  Introduction to Social Psychology

   1.1  History and theoretical systems

   1.2  Inter and intradisciplinary relations

   1.3  Research methods and techniques

2  Individual and interindividual processes

   2.1  Cognition and social thinking

      2.1.1  Representations of social knowledge

      2.1.2  Attitudes, attitude change and persuasion

      2.1.3  Values, ideologies, and attitudinal systems

      2.1.4  Perception of persons and processes of causal attribution

2.2  Self and interpersonal processes

   2.2.1  Self and self-presentation strategies

   2.2.2  Motivation and social regulation of emotions

   2.2.3  Interpersonal communication

   2.2.4  Attraction and interpersonal intimate relationships

   2.2.5  Aggression and altruism

3. Group and intergroup processes

   3.1Communication and social influence in small groups

   3.2 Cohesion, conflict and group development

   3.3 Performance and group decision-making

   3.4 Power and leadership

4. Application issues. 

Head Lecturer(s)

Lisete Santos Mendes Mónico

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

Aronson, E., Wilson, T. D., & Akert, R. M., & Sommers, S. R. (2015). Social psychology (9th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

Baumeister, R. F. (Ed.) (1999), The self in social psychology. Cleveland, OH: Psychology Press.

Fiske, S. T., Gilbert, D. T., & Lindzey, G. (Eds.) (2010). Handbook of social psychology (5th ed., 2 Vols.).

Forsyth, D. R. (2019). Group dynamics (7th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage.

Hewstone, M., & Brewer, M. (Eds.) (2001). Blackwell handbook of social psychology (4 Vols.). London: Blackwell. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Higgins, E. T., & Kruglanski, A. W. (Eds.) (2007). Social psychology: Handbook of basic principles (2nd ed.). New York: Guilford Press.

Reis, H. T., & Judd, C. M. (Eds.) (2014). The handbook of research methods in social and personality psychology (2nd ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Vala, J., & Monteiro, M. B. (Eds.) (2013). Psicologia Social (9a ed.). Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.