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Lecturer(s)
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Kafetsios Konstantinos, prof. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Personality: The trait vs. state debade Personality: Beyond the trait-state debade A cognitive-affective system theory of personality: The CAPS model Personality and Social Psychology: Advanced research methods Adult attachment as a state: The beneficial effects of security priming Dyadic models of Personality: Interpersonal emotion regulation Emotion Decoding Capabilities: A contextualized approach Personality and Geography- Geographical Social Psychology Thermoregulation across the globe: The Human Penguin Project Personality and the Cultural context
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Projection (static, dynamic)
- Semestral Work
- 30 hours per semester
- Preparation for the Exam
- 40 hours per semester
- Attendace
- 22 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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Personality theories (approached either from a psychoanalytic, humanistic, trait or other perspective) are concerned with individual-centered stability of characteristics. Since, Walter Mischel's criticism on the stability of personality, however, the limitations of psychological theories have been considered and the role of social context for personality expression has come to front. The course aims to promote an understanding of personality approaches from as socio-psychological perspective, or in other words, to understand personality as an interaction of individual in social contexts. The first part of the course will examine the trait-state debate and introduce some key contextual theories of personality. From then several different contexts within which personality develops or interacts with will be presented: developmental, interpersonal, dyadic, cultural and others. Taken as a whole, the course presents cutting edge theories and research of the last and introduces students to some advanced-level thinking about the role of the individual within different social contexts. Throughout the course students are taught skills both in understanding and analyzing social and psychological characteristics, advanced methods, skills that can be applied to other areas of psychology.
Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of the necessary technology Decision-making Working independently Working in an international environment Working in an interdisciplinary environment Production of new research ideas Project planning and management Respect for difference and multiculturalism Showing social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues Criticism and self-criticism Production of free, creative and inductive thinking
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Prerequisites
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Social Psychology Research Methods
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written exam, Essay
Introduction to Social Psychology, Research Methods
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Recommended literature
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Deaux, K. (2018). The Oxford Handbook of Personality Psychology. NY.
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Shoda, Y. (2007). Persons in Context Building a Science of the Individual. Guilford.
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