POL 3767 is also offered in Spring 2025
POL 3767 is also offered in Fall 2021
Spring 2019 | POL 3767 Section 001: Political Psychology of Elite Behavior (66139)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 150
- Enrollment Status:
Open (82 of 83 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Intersections of politics, personality, and social psychology. Focuses on political leaders and elites. Usefulness of psychological theories for conducting political analysis. Role of individual, of group processes, of political/social cognition, and of context in political decision-making.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?cdmyers+POL3767+Spring2019
- Class Description:
- Can political psychology help us understand the behavior of presidents, party leaders and dictators? This course draws on the approaches of social and cognitive psychology to examine and explain the behavior of political leaders and other elites. We will cover judgement and decision making, the effect of personality and other individual differences, group processes, and other topics. In addition to these substantive topics, we will learn about the methods used by political scientists to study political elites.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66139/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 26 May 2015
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2019 Political Science Classes