Prospectus

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Emotion and Cognition

Course
2009-2010

This course addresses the interaction of human emotion and cognition. The first four lectures provide an overview of the basic streams in investigating and theorizing about emotions and affective processing, including evolutionary, anthropological, sociological, information-processing, and neurophysiological approaches. The remaining lectures provide examples for the application of emotion theories to issues in clinical, developmental, social and health psychology.

Coordinator

Prof.dr. B. Hommel
Room 2B05
Tel: 071 5273714
Tel: 0629023062
E-mailaddress: hommel@fsw.leidenuniv.nl

Aim(s)

The student has gained a broad overview of classical and modern theories on emotion, and a deeper insight into how theoretical concepts and hypotheses in this area can be applied to empirical phenomena and practical problems.

Literature

  • Cornelius, R.R. (1996) The Science of Emotion. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall (available for a reduced price via Labyrint)

  • PDFs on Blackboard

Examination

Final exam: 40 multiple-choice questions in English, dictionaries are allowed.

From January 1, 2006 the Faculty of Social Sciences has instituted the Ephorus system to be used by instructors for the systematic detection of plagiarism in students’ written work. Please see the Additional Rules and Regulations, section 6.

Education method(s)

8 lectures and final examination.

Application

Enrolment for courses of the second semester will take place from January 18th (10hr) until January 21th (10hr) 2010, via U-TWIST.

NB: Exam and re-exam registration will take place via U-Twist, and will be open between a month and a week before the (re)exam. Students who don’t register, cannot participate in the (re)exam.

Electives students
You have to enroll for each course separately. Read more on the electives (in Dutch)

Blackboard

www.blackboard.leidenuniv.nl : Enrolling is obligatory

Timetable