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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Examines major issues, concepts, and methods in the scientific study of social relationships. Topics include relationship formation and dissolution, friendships and love relationships, loneliness, bereavement, societal influences on close relationships, significance of close relationships for health and well-being. Prerequisites: Psychology and Social Behavior P9 or P11C, or Psychology 7A or 9C, or equivalent; Social Ecology 10.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Examines how people encode, reason about, and remember social information and explores how biases and shortcomings in social perception, judgment, and memory are central to understanding both effective social functioning and many forms of maladaptive behavior and social conflict. Prerequisite: Psychology and Social Behavior P9 or P11C or Psychology 7A or 9C, or equivalent.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Overviews evidence linking environmental factors to mental and physical disorders including such variables as socioeconomic status, income inequality, work stress, job loss, social capital, location, and other demographic characteristics. Considers measurement and research design issues of both the individual and aggregate levels. Prerequisites: Psychology and Social Behavior P9 or P11C, or Psychology 7A or 9C, or equivalent; Social Ecology 10; Social Ecology 13 or equivalent. Same as Public Health 102.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Psychological assumptions of American legal system and mental health aspects of provision of criminal justice services. Civil commitment, insanity defense, competence to stand trial, jury selection, eye-witness identification. Use of police, courts, correctional institutions in prevention of behavior disorders. Prerequisite: Criminology, Law and Society C7 or C101. Same as Criminology, Law and Society C105.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Examines how psychology research and practice can inform areas of law and social policy affecting children and adolescents. Topics include education, mental health, reproductive rights, and delinquency. Goals are to evaluate research as well as identify the costs/benefits of current policies. Prerequisites: Psychology and Social Behavior P9 or P11C, Psychology 7A or 9C, or equivalent; Psychology and Social Behavior P113D or P114D recommended. Same as Criminology, Law and Society C125.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Examines the development of children's academic and cognitive competence in social context. Effects of parental beliefs, home environment, school environment, peer norms, community norms, cultural values. Effects of selected demographic factors such as ethnicity, parental SES, maternal employment, birth order. Prerequisite: Psychology and Social Behavior P9 or P11C, or Psychology 7A or 9C, or equivalent.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Examines legal issues surrounding marriage, cohabitation, divorce, child custody and support, adoption, and the rights of parents and children in the family context. The findings of social science research are used to illuminate the legal issues. Prerequisite: Criminology, Law and Society C7 or C101. Same as Criminology, Law and Society C123.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Effects of employment and unemployment on mental health and marital quality; effects of work on parenting and child development; corporate and social policies for "families that work"; young adults' decision-making about work and family. Prerequisite:Psychology and Social Behavior P9 or P11C, or Psychology 7A or 9C, or equivalent.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Examines divorce in historical, economic, and, primarily, psychological contexts, emphasizing recent research pertaining to the impacts of divorce on children, families, and society. Prerequisite: Psychology and Social Behavior P9 or P11C, or Psychology 7A or 9C, or equivalent. Same as Psychology 177I.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Current theory and research on aggression; anger and violence as problems in individual and social functioning. Process and functions of anger examined with regard to normal behavior and psychopathology. The determinants, prevalence, and implications of violence in society are analyzed. Prerequisite: Psychology and Social Behavior P9 or P11C, or Psychology 7A or 9C, or equivalent. Same as Criminology, Law and Society C149.
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