Pol Psy
Political Psychology
Courses in Political Psychology University of Victoria
Over the last several summers Professor Fletcher has offered either a lecture or a seminar course in Political Psychology at the University of Victoria. In Summer 2024 he will teach a fully synchronous online lecture course.
Looking for insight into the waves of authoritarianism. polarization and populism sweeping the globe? This lecture course focusses on these topics through examination of classic and contemporary work in field of political psychology
This seminar course focuses on implicit attitudes and indirect measurement.
This course meets UC's Statistical Reasoning (SR) General Education (GE) Requirement. During the most recent term the substantive focus was on public attitudes regarding immigration in California and Texas.
...the wiring of the brain at this point in history is such that connections from the emotional systems to the cognitive systems are stronger than connections from the cognitive systems to the emotional systems.
LeDoux