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Political Psychology and International Relations
GOV 2749

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Description

This graduate seminar explores psychological approaches to international politics. Topics covered include heuristics and biases, signaling and perceptions, motivated reasoning and stereotypes, emotions and moral reasoning, personality and operational codes, ideology and culture, small group decision-making, intergroup relations, reputation and status, national and transnational identities, political violence, and evolutionary and biological approaches. 

School Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits 4
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Department Government
Course Component Seminar
Subject Government
Grading Basis FAS Letter Graded
General Education N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data N/A
Divisional Distribution Social Sciences
Course Level Primarily for Graduate Students