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Veranstaltungen von PD Dr. Timur Sevincer


Lehrveranstaltungen

Social psychology (Vorlesung)

Dozent/in: Timur Sevincer

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Montag | 12:15 - 13:45 | 06.04.2026 - 10.07.2026 | C 14.027 Seminarraum

Inhalt: This lecture offers an introduction to the field of Social Psychology. During class, prominent theoretical approaches, social psychological research methods, and major findings from classic and contemporary empirical studies will be reviewed and discussed. Some of the topics covered in this lecture include: social cognition (e.g., automatic and controlled thinking), social perception (e.g., nonverbal communication and causal attribution), self and identity (e.g., self-esteem, personal and social identity), attitudes and attitude change (e.g., bases of attitudes, persuasion), group processes (e.g., conformity, group decisions), prosocial behavior (e.g., altruism, bystander intervention), aggression (e.g., different forms of aggression and violence, e.g., school yard violence, genocide, violence in the media), and stereotypes, prejudices, and discrimination (e.g., implicit prejudices, intergroup contact). Theories and empirical findings will be illustrated with real-life examples, critically evaluated, and applied to pressing social problems.

Psychology of Motivation, Emotion, Communication and Self-Regulation (Vorlesung)

Dozent/in: Timur Sevincer

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Donnerstag | 12:15 - 13:45 | 06.04.2026 - 10.07.2026 | C HS 2

Inhalt: Motivation Science is a course that provides students with general knowledge of motivational processes, their origins, and their significant role in human decision processes and behaviors. In this course, you will explore the major factors underlying human actions. What motivates people to perform certain behaviors over others? What gives people the energy and direction to move forward? What keeps people going in the face of challenges and difficulties? This course is about “why” and “how.” Why do people behave the way they do? Why do people regularly fail at their goals? How can people make better plans to increase their chances of success? How do people experience emotions? How do emotions steer people’s motivation and behavior? The course will cover the major theoretical perspectives and methodologies related to the study of motivation. It starts with reflecting on the nature of motivation and attempting to track its evolutionary origins. These themes will be followed by a review of the core human motives of autonomy, competence, and belonging. Further, the course devotes four sessions to the goal attainment process, including discussions on goal setting, goal planning, and goal striving, which highlights the central role of goals in the field of motivation. Students will also be provided with an overview of the emerging work on automatic, unconscious motivation. Subsequently, the issue of emotion will be introduced, followed by a discussion of the effects of individual differences and social situations on motivation. The final lecture will introduce the interdisciplinary nature of motivation science by covering insights made in sustainability psychology. This course features a format that mixes traditional class meetings with autonomous out-of-class learning. Class meetings will include a combination of lectures, activities (e.g., self-scoring the Self-Control Scale by Tangney et al., 2004), and discussions (e.g., peer-to-peer discussion among students). Specifically, class meetings will be used to teach students about a variety of theories, frameworks, and models that explain motivation, to explore extensions and applications of concepts and ideas, and to cover important or intriguing topics that are not addressed in the handbook. Note that reading and preparing are not included in class meetings. These activities are expected of students above and beyond the required meeting times.