COMM 123
Social Cognition
Description: Lecture, three hours. Survey of research from field of social cognition, with emphasis on understanding cognitive processes involved in interpersonal and intergroup communication. Topics include attention, interpretation, evaluation, judgment, attribution, and memory processes. Consideration of both controlled and automatic processes. Discussion of roles of motives, goals, and affective variables. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0