PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN EMOTIONS: FROM BIOLOGY TO CULTURE
Emotional experience affects and defines every facet of our life, but it seems mysterious and unsuitable for scientific inquiry. Explore how and why emotion is not unsuited to scientific research and provides an in-depth examination of research from all sub-disciplines of the field of Psychology. This includes neuroscience and the biological bases of behavior, questions of the developmental curve for emotional phenomena and the relationship between feeling and thinking, and the study of social groups and culture.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: PSYCH 403 , 428, 456 , 460 , 462 , 464 , SOC/PSYCH 453 , or PSYCH/GEN&WS 522 Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the theoretical approaches to emotion and current debates in the psychology of emotion Audience: Undergraduate 2. Analyze the main questions addressed in research on emotion, and how that research is conducted Audience: Undergraduate 3. Explore the functioning of numerous components of emotion in addition to subjective experience (feelings) such as bodily and facial expression, physiology, and processes of the brain Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the theoretical approaches to emotion and current debates in the psychology of emotion Audience: Undergraduate 2. Analyze the main questions addressed in research on emotion, and how that research is conducted Audience: Undergraduate 3. Explore the functioning of numerous components of emotion in addition to subjective experience (feelings) such as bodily and facial expression, physiology, and processes of the brain Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027