Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
0 Hour(s) 45 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Craig Harper, PhD
Rating
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Course Overview
Develop Your Social Skills and Understand the Psychology of the Culture Wars
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Are you tired of seeing one political side shouting over another? Do you struggle to understand why people see some things as morally fine, but you think they're abhorrent? If so, you need to delve into The Social Psychology of the Moral and Political Mind.
In this course, you will:
- Learn about how people make moral decisions based on automatic gut reactions, rather than reason and logic
- Understand the foundations of human morality, personality, and motivated decision-making
- Hear about the psychological evidence behind 'liberals' and 'conservatives' having different psychological make-ups
- Apply the evidence to current political debates
This course gives you what you need to know to understand the social psychology of the culture wars - fast. You will be learning all of this from an expert in this field. I am a university-based psychology lecturer, a practising research psychologist, and have published academic papers in the area of social psychology.
I hope you enjoy the course, and will be happy to answer an questions you have about the content.
Welcome aboard!
Course Content
- 4 section(s)
- 11 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction
- Section 2 The Moral Psychology of Politics
- Section 3 Motivated Cognition
- Section 4 Conclusions
What You’ll Learn
- You will learn how unconscious processes guide our behaviour, You will be able to describe the various universal moral intuitions that help us make moral decisions, You will understand why most people do not change their minds when given facts, You will be able to explain how personality traits impact our political ideologies
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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LLee Rhodes
I very much appreciated the insights I gained into the topic. I will certainly be thinking about how I can use this new understanding. But, the course is very short and brief.
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KKian Tajbakhsh
Very useful and clear explanations. I would have liked to hear a little more about the literature on (rational) political ignorance, which suggests the possibility of overcoming motivated reasoning is highly unlikely.
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AAyriss Najeeda Aaliyah
Well, it's seems a bit more challenging to understand how we can interpret agreements in a daily basis how our experiences lead to thinking which is a means to satisfy a standard many are exposed to and how we can rationalize our biases ultimately maintains, status quo.. deliberately I must say, I may by some accounts be questionable and held suspect to imply there's no change. Our evolution requires discovering problems to fix. Not everyone 'agrees' no matter how they age that we life is a evolutionary process or subject. Good challenge; to approach all the threads to accommodate political environments.
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SSy Dellik
Pretty good info. Though a bit skewed at times. One example: "Liberals are harder to disgust than conservatives." I would say Liberals are just disgusted by different things, because they value different things. Saying that one group's values are valid, and the other's are not, is skewed / biased.
