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Module code:PSYCGS02(Add to my personalised list)
Title:Social Cognition, Affect and Motivation
Credit value:15
Division:Division of Psychology and Language Sciences
Module organiser:Ana Guinote
Organiser's location:26 Bedford Way
Organiser's email:a.guinote@ucl.ac.uk
Available for students in Year(s):
Module prerequisites: 
Module outline:This course focuses on a central construct in social cognition, of relevance for a variety of domains (e.g., marketing, consumer psychology, political psychology, racism and social discrimination). The course examines how attitudes are formed, their structure and implications for behaviour, their malleability, and how they can be changed. Various techniques to measure implicit and explicit attitudes are examined, as well as the physiological and neural correlates of attitudes. Debates and theoretical models about attitude processing and measurement are discussed. The course focuses also on applications, such as marketing (e.g., persuasion), consumer behaviour, voting behaviour, prejudice and discrimination.  
Module aims:To introduce students to the socio-cognitive components of individual and group construal 
Module objectives:Through the course, students are expected to develop knowledge and understanding of: - how current states and goals affect the construal of social reality - experimental designs in social cognition, affect and motivation - theoretical issues in motivation and social cognition - how the social reality impacts basic processes 
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Module timetable:https://cmis.adcom.ucl.ac.uk:4443/timetabling/moduleTimet.do?firstReq=Y&moduleId=PSYCGS02 
Module assessment:Assignment 20.00%.
One essay 80.00%.
 
Notes:This is available to a limited number of students from MSc Cognitive and Decision Sciences and MSc Industrial/Organisational and Business Psychology 
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