Emotion and Cognition | Humanities & Social Sciences

Emotion and Cognition

Course Number: 
HSL863
LTP structure: 
3-0-0
Discipline: 
Psychology
Credit: 
3.0

Pre-requisite

Course Objective

The course is aimed at offering a theoretical understanding of what are emotions, what is the nature of emotion, and how do emotion - cognition interact to influence behavior.

Course Content

The course will cover the following topics: theoretical approaches to emotion (evolutionary, biological, social, cognitive), select emotions and emotion expression (e.g., anger, fear, sadness, joy, surprise, disgust), and implications of emotion and cognition (e.g., stress-health, sex-differences)
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