Course Information

PSY 3850 - Psychology of Good and Evil

Institution:
Utah Valley University
Subject:
Psychology
Description:
Prerequisite(s): PSY 1010 and (ENGL 2010 with a C+ grade or higher) and University Advanced Standing. Provides an integrated approach to understanding the roots of good and evil in human behavior. Explores theories and studies of human caring and destructiveness. Analyzes and develops psychological explanation of why individuals choose different courses of action under similar circumstances. Explores such concepts as attachment and parental discipline, bystander phenomena, response to authority, genocide, killing during war, group identity, bullying, views of the other and racism, forgiveness and reconciliation, and psychopathology and the biology of emotion.
Credits:
3.00
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Instructional Type:
Lecture
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Phone Number:
(801) 863-8000
Regional Accreditation:
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities
Calendar System:
Semester
General Education
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