1. Attitudes: components and measurement by Thurstone. Likert, and semantic differential scales. Attitudes change and persuasive communication. Cognitive consistency and dissonance. Attitude-behavior relationships.   
2. Self-psychology: Self-concept, self-esteem, and self-image. Self-recognition and personal identity.   
3. Interpersonal issues: person perception, affiliation, and friendship. Attribution theory, ‘naïve psychology’ and the primary (fundamental) attribution error. Social behavior in social interactions. ‘Theory of mind’ as it might apply to pervasive developmental and personality disorders. Elemental linguistics as applied to interpersonal communication.   
4. Leadership, social influence, power, and obedience. Types of social power. Influence operating in small and large groups or crowds: conformity, polarization, and ‘groupthink’, deindividuation. Communicative control in relationships.   
5. Intergroup behavior: prejudice, stereotypes, and intergroup hostility. Social identity and group membership.   
6. Aggression: explanations according to social learning theory, operant conditioning, ethnology, frustration, and arousal concepts. The influence of television and other media.   Family and social backgrounds of aggressive individuals.  
7. Altruism, social exchange theory, and helping relationships. Interpersonal co-operation.  

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