PSYC 265

Credit: 3 hours.

Explores how individuals experience power, status, and influence. The course will focus on the personality and social factors that lead people to attain an elevated rank in society. We will examine how social position shapes basic psychological processes including social perception, relationship strategies, emotion, and well-being across the life course. Multiple forms of power and status will be studied, including those based on peer respect, class, race, gender, and physical dominance.