Syllabus/achievement requirements

Module 1:

  • Yzerbyt, V., Y., Dumont, M., Wigboldus, D., & Gordijn, E. (2003). I feel for us: The impact of categorization and identification on emotions and action tendencies. British Journal of Social Psychology, 42, 533-549.
  • Obaidi, M., Bergh, R., Akrami, N., & Anjum, G. (2019). Group-Based Relative Deprivation Explains Endorsement of Extremism Among Western-Born Muslims. Psychological Science, 0(0), 0956797619834879. doi:10.1177/0956797619834879

Module 2- Judging truth- Scientific disagreement, misinformation and conspiracy theories.

  • Brashier, N. M., & Marsh, E. J. (2020). Judging Truth. Annual Review of Psychology, 71(1), 499-515. doi:10.1146/annurev-psych-010419-050807
  • Fischer, P., & Greitemeyer, T. (2010). A New Look at Selective-Exposure Effects: An Integrative Model. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19(6), 384-389. doi:10.1177/0963721410391246

Module 3- Transformative Reading: Changing insights into self and others

  •  Kidd, D. C., & Castano, E. (2013). Reading literary fiction improves theory of mind. Science, 342(6156), 377–380. doi:10.1126/science.1239918
  • Fialho, O. (2019). What is literature for? The role of transformative reading. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 6(1), 1692532. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2019.1692532

Module 4-Heuristics and biases

  • Kahneman, D. (2003). A perspective on judgment and choice: mapping bounded rationality. American psychologist58(9), 697-720.
  • Bechara, A., Damasio, H., Tranel, D., & Damasio, A. R. (1997). Deciding advantageously before knowing the advantageous strategy. Science275(5304), 1293-1295.

 

 

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