The Psychology of Behavior with Others Study + Internship in London: CEA London Center - OLD Program Spring 2017 Semester

This module provides students with the opportunity to explore a number of the major concepts, theories and methods encountered in understanding how and why we behave in the ways we do when in the presence of other humans. The focus of this module is to understand what psychologists have contributed to understanding our social behaviors according to the real, imagined or implied presence of other individuals. The module focuses on those approaches that have been used to examine a whether we are social beings and why, b what the ?social? brain looks like, c how social behaviors develop across the lifespan, d which mechanisms have been used to explain how we interact with the implied, real or imagined presence of others, e how culture affects our social interactions, and f how group membership affects our social behaviors.