Social Psychology and Decision-making

2025/2026

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

6

Кредиты

Кто читает:

Департамент социологии

Статус:

Курс обязательный

Когда читается:

2-й курс, 1, 2 модуль

Преподаватели

Ерицян Ксения Юрьевна

Синявская Ядвига Эдуардовна

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

• Ability to undertake research, including problem analysis, setting tasks and objectives, identification of the research object and subject, of research methods as well as assess the quality of the conducted research
• Ability to analyze socially significant problems and processes with impartiality and scientific objectivity
• Ability to solve problems in professional practice based on analysis and synthesis

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 is able to apply knowledge of social influence factors to construct experiments and in everyday communication
• Applies AI tools in both research and practical activities
• The student determines which interdisciplinary methods are relevant to their experiment
• The student performs a functional multi-level socio-psychological experiment.

Course Contents

• Introduction
• Social influence
• Interdisciplinary approach in contemporary social psychology
• Application of AI technologies in contemporary social psychology

Assessment Elements

• Seminar participation
  Seminar class absence and retakes ● Students are responsible for notifying the teacher of their absence due to an extenuating circumstance or illness prior to the missed class (by email or in person). ● Classes missed due to illness or an extenuating circumstance are excluded from the calculation of accumulated grade. ● Students who missed more than 6 seminar hours due to illness or an extenuating circumstance have to provide home assignments for missed seminars in a written form not later than 2 weeks before the final examination. ● Assignments, requirements and recommendations are provided individually by email upon request from the student.
• Project Work
• Exam test

Interim Assessment

• 2025/2026 2nd module
  0.3 * Project Work + 0.3 * Seminar participation + 0.4 * Exam test

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• 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
• Sasaki, J., & Kim, H. (2017). Nature, Nurture, and Their Interplay: A Review of Cultural Neuroscience. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.DF1281E7
• Social Influence and Group Identity (Vol. 72). (2021). Annual Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-070620-111818
• Сборник материалов студенческих конференций Artificial Intelligence: Challenges, Essence, Communication, Creativity and other aspects : сборник статей / ; под ред. Ю. В. Шубиной, Д. З. Арибжановой, О. И. Опариной, С. И. Плиевой, Коллектив авторов. — Москва : Русайнс, 2024. — 108 с. — ISBN 978-5-466-07507-6. — URL: https://book.ru/book/955257 (дата обращения: 09.12.2025). — Текст : электронный.

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• 9780691197777 - Susan Schneider - Artificial You : AI and the Future of Your Mind - 2019 - Princeton University Press - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=2096169 - nlebk - 2096169
• Arioli, M., Crespi, C., & Canessa, N. (2018). Social Cognition through the Lens of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience. BioMed Research International, 2018, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/4283427
• 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
• Stephen G. Harkins, Kipling D. Williams, & Jerry M. Burger. (2017). The Oxford Handbook of Social Influence. Oxford University Press.
• 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
• Социальное влияние - 978-5-459-00397-0 - Зимбардо Филип, Ляйппе Майкл - 2011 - Санкт-Петербург: Питер - https://ibooks.ru/products/339929 - 339929 - iBOOKS

Authors

• DYMOVA POLINA MAKSIMOVNA
• Eritsian Kseniia Iurevna
• Siniavskaia Iadviga Eduardovna