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Emotion
PSYC E-1060
Emotion (12504)
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Matthew Leeds, PhD, Clinical Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School.
Course tuition: noncredit $450, undergraduate credit $800, graduate credit $1,725.
Fall term:
Mondays beginning Sept. 15, 5:30-7:30 pm, Emerson Hall, Room 108. Required sections for graduate-credit students to be arranged.
Emotion is a fundamental, complex, and sometimes confusing part of human experience. This course surveys the current state of knowledge about human emotion. The questions addressed include the following: What is emotion? Do we find a set of universal basic emotions if we look across cultures? What are the functions of emotion? Can we control our emotions? Prerequisite: introductory psychology. (4 credits)