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PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN EMOTIONS: FROM BIOLOGY TO CULTURE

PSYCH 508
Course Description

Emotional experience affects and defines every facet of our life, but it seems mysterious and unsuitable for scientific inquiry. Explore how and why emotion is not unsuited to scientific research and provides an in-depth examination of research from all sub-disciplines of the field of Psychology. This includes neuroscience and the biological bases of behavior, questions of the developmental curve for emotional phenomena and the relationship between feeling and thinking, and the study of social groups and culture.

Prerequisties
Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

4

Offered

Fall, Spring

Grade Point Average
3.52

6.97% from Historical

Completion Rate
98.71%

1.52% from Historical

A Rate
56.13%

40.61% from Historical

Class Size
155

28.9% from Historical

2025 Fall Grade Distribution

Instructors (2025 Fall)

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