Social Psychology

2025/2026

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

5

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Department of Sociology

Course type:

Elective course

When:

2 year, 1, 2 module

Instructors

Mararitsa, Larisa

Орешина Галина Владимировна

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course covers a broad range of social psychology topics from both theoretical and applied perspectives. The course would be focused on classical social psychology issues such as social influence, social groups, interpersonal relationships and communications. It would also include several notable applications of social psychology to such issues as judgment and decision making, health and illness and internet communications. The current state of the art and emerging initiatives in modern social psychology, including the open science movement would be discussed in detail.

Learning Objectives

• Learning how to use and explain theories of social psychology in different situations.
• Analyze and evaluate the strengths and limitations of published works
• Learn basic principles of social psychological interventions

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Apply social psychology theories to understand different social problems on group, organization and society level
• Explain specific theories of social psychology and use that theory to interpret and predict behavior in specific social situations.
• Know and ready to use the effective communication strategies on interpersonal and group level
• Know basic principles of social psychological interventions development on the group and community levels
• Review and evaluate published works, their strengths and limitations at a basic level
• Able, at a basic level, select and evaluate existing research articles according to their their scientific merit, credibility and usefulness
• Able to draw up a plan of work during the course to obtain the desired grade according to the provided assignments
• Draws on relevant classical theories and interventions from classical social psychology, depending on the task at hand.
• Applies information of the structure of knowledge in social psychology to complete course assignments
• The student can determine which of the classical theories can be relied upon depending on the task
• The student is able to apply knowledge about the concept of "self" as an object of study in his research practice
• The student is able to determine the contribution of participants` social perception properties to the observed social phenomenon
• The student could apply the basic principles of developing social and psychological interventions at the group and community level.
• The student is able to apply knowledge of social influence factors to construct experiments and in everyday communication
• The student is able to apply effective communication strategies at the interpersonal and group level.
• The student forms the experimental design of his research taking into account the criteria of scientific knowledge and replicability
• The student is able to choose the direction of his research in accordance with current relevant areas of scientific interest.
• The student creates an working design for a multi-level socio-psychological experiment
• The student is able to determine which interdisciplinary methods will be relevant to his experiment
• The student is able to apply any AI tools both in research and in practical activities
• The student applies various coping strategies (interventions) in interpersonal communication

Course Contents

• Introduction
• Overview of selected classical theories and classical studies
• Self and self-presentation
• Social perception and cognition
• Groups and group processes
• Social influence
• Interpersonal and intergroup relationships
• Social psychology from theory to intervention: applied cases
• Social psychology methods and the replication crisis
• Social psychology methods: state of art
• Multidisciplinary approach in modern social psychology
• AI application in modern social psychology

Assessment Elements

• In-class Participation
  Activity during the seminars
• Project
• Exam test

Interim Assessment

• 2025/2026 2nd module
  0.4 * Exam test + 0.3 * In-class Participation + 0.3 * Project

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Bernard Marr, & Matt Ward. (2019). Artificial Intelligence in Practice : How 50 Successful Companies Used AI and Machine Learning to Solve Problems. Wiley.
• Carey K. Morewedge, Daniel M. Wegner, Jesse Preston, Woodrow Wilson, School Public, Kristian Myrseth, & Xi Wang. (n.d.). ATTITUDES AND SOCIAL COGNITION Timescale Bias in the Attribution of Mind. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.A57E2BB7
• DeLamater, J. D., & Collett, J. L. (2019). Social Psychology (Vol. Ninth edition). New York, NY: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1753380
• Frings, D. (2019). Social Psychology : The Basics. New York, NY: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1892519
• Giles, H., & St. Clair, R. N. (2019). Recent Advances in Language, Communication, and Social Psychology. London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1897000
• Hewett, R., Shantz, A., & Mundy, J. (2019). Information, beliefs, and motivation: The antecedents to human resource attributions. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2353
• Lane, S. D. (2016). Interpersonal Communication : Competence and Contexts (Vol. Second edition). London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1259028
• Sassenberg, K., & Vliek, M. L. (2019). Social Psychology in Action Evidence-Based Interventions from Theory to Practice. Springer. retrieved from https://link-springer-com.proxylibrary.hse.ru/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-13788-5
• Sherman, J. W., & Stroessner, S. J. (2015). Social Perception From Individuals to Groups. New York, NY: Psychology Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=955740
• Social Influence and Group Identity (Vol. 72). (2021). Annual Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-070620-111818
• Solomon, Denise, and Jennifer Theiss. Interpersonal Communication : Putting Theory into Practice, Routledge, 2013. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1101332.
• Sustainable AI : An inventory of the state of knowledge of ethical, social, and legal challenges related to artificial intelligence. (2019). Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.625229
• Ward, A., & DeLamater, J. D. (2013). Handbook of Social Psychology (Vol. Second edition). New York: Springer. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1074048
• Wojciech Świątkowski, & Benoît Dompnier. (2017). Replicability Crisis in Social Psychology: Looking at the Past to Find New Pathways for the Future. https://doi.org/10.5334/irsp.66
• Защиринская, О. В. Психические травмы в межличностных отношениях : учебное пособие / О. В. Защиринская. - Санкт-Петербург : Изд-во С.-Петерб. ун-та, 2022. - 172 с. - ISBN 978-5-288-06177-6. - Текст : электронный. - URL: https://znanium.com/catalog/product/1872910
• Методы и методология социально-психологических исследований. - 978-5-4461-2390-2 - Почебут Л. Г., Гуриевой С. Д., Чикер В. А., ред. - 2023 - Санкт-Петербург: Питер - https://ibooks.ru/bookshelf/389196 - 389196 - iBOOKS
• Психология общения и межличностных отношений. 2-е изд. . - 978-5-4461-9613-5 - Ильин Е. П. - 2021 - Санкт-Петербург: Питер - https://ibooks.ru/bookshelf/377309 - 377309 - iBOOKS
• Психология социального влияния, Семечкин, Н.И., 2004
• Пырьев, Е. А. Психология малых групп. Практико-ориентированный курс : учебное пособие / Е. А. Пырьев. — Оренбург : ОГПУ, 2016. — 232 с. — ISBN 978-5-85859-651-6. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/100918 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.
• Социальная психология, Майерс, Д., 2007
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Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Alia Martin, Jessica Sommerville, & Talee Ziv. (2016). Variability and Individual Differences in Early Social Perception and Social Cognition. Web server without geographic relation, Web server without geographic relation (org): Frontiers Media SA. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.DE87DF8D
• Deaux, K., & Snyder, M. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology. : Oxford University Press. 2018, https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190224837.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190224837.
• Hewstone, M., Rubin, M., & Willis, H. (2002). Intergroup bias. Annual Review Of Psychology, 53, 575–604. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=mdc&AN=11752497
• Knapp, M. L., & Hall, J. A. (2013). Nonverbal Communication. Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=544027
• Lange, P. A. M. V., Kruglanski, A. W., & Higgins, E. T. (2013). Handbook of Theories of Social Psychology : Collection: Volumes 1 & 2 (Vol. [Enhanced Credo edition]). Los Angeles [California]: SAGE Publications Ltd. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1216048
• Riek, B. M., Mania, E. W., & Gaertner, S. L. (2006). Intergroup threat and outgroup attitudes: a meta-analytic review. Personality And Social Psychology Review: An Official Journal Of The Society For Personality And Social Psychology, Inc, 10(4), 336–353. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=mdc&AN=17201592
• Thomas F. Pettigrew. (n.d.). INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS AND GROUP PROCESSES A Meta-Analytic Test of Intergroup Contact Theory. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.E5FCBB03
• Todd, A. R., & Galinsky, A. D. (2014). Perspective-Taking as a Strategy for Improving Intergroup Relations: Evidence, Mechanisms, and Qualifications. Social & Personality Psychology Compass, 8(7), 374–387. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12116
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• Почебут Л.Г., Чикер В.А. - Организационная социальная психология. Учебник - 978-5-392-30567-4 - Проспект - 2020 - http://ebs.prospekt.org/book/42582 - 42582 - PROSPECT

Authors

• Eritsian Kseniia Iurevna
• Mararitsa Larisa Valerevna
• Siniavskaia Iadviga Eduardovna
• Oreshina Galina Vladimirovna