Lecturers:

Assoc. Prof. Elena Paspalanova, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Penka Hristova, PhD
Asst. Prof. Metodi Koralov, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Nikolay Dimitrov, PhD

Course Description:

Competencies:

On completion of the course the students will have:

1) knowledge:

- the basic achievements – theories and constructs - explaining interpersonal relationships;

- the origins and functions of different forms of social behavior – aggression, prosocial behavior, close relationships;

- the fundamental principles of attitude formation and change.

2) skills:

- to make sense of the hypothesis and research findings in the field of interpersonal relations;

- to present verbally results of social-psychological experiments and their interpretation.
Prerequisites:
Sufficient listening, reading and writing skills in English (level C1) as well as introductory courses in Psychology from the 1st year of the education.

Types:
Full-time Programmes

Types of Courses:
Lecture

Language of teaching:
English

Topics:

Bibliography:

Aronson, Elliot (2007). The Social Animal, (10th edition). Worth Publishers

Brehm, Sharon S., Saul M. Kassin (1996). Social psychology, (3th edition)

Rogers, Wendy Stainton (2003). Social psychology. Experimental and critical approaches. Open University Press

Hewstone, Miles, Antony S.R. Manstead, Wolfgang Stroebe (Eds.) (1997). The Blackwell reader in social psychology. Blackwell Publishers Ltd.

Flether, Karl J.O., Margaret S. Clark (Eds.) (2001). Blackwell handbook of social psychology: Interpersonal processes. Blackwell Publishers

Tesser, Abraham, Norbert Schwarz (Eds.) (2001). Blackwell handbook of social psychology: Intraindividual processes. Blackwell Publishers

Brehm, Sharon S. (1992). Intimate relationships. McGraw-Hill, Inc.

Assessment:

- a presentation (30%)

- a test (70%)