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2024-2025 PAU University Catalog

PSYS804 Psychological Science II: AffectiveBases of Behavior

This course discusses the relevance of human emotions and examines empirical research on affective processes underlying behavior. The socio-affective bases of behavior addressed in the course include approaches to understand basic emotions, structure and function of emotion, self-conscious emotions, regulation of emotions, emotion in social cognition, emotion and group processes, gender differences in emotion processes, emotion and culture, and emotion and health. Students are required to think critically about current literature in the field of emotions.

Credits

2.5