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Neuroscience of Relationships

9 Lessons

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Our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. In this course, we look at how our neurobiology is involved in perceiving, thinking about, and behaving towards others.

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Course Structure

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Lesson 1 – Understanding Others

In this lesson, we look at how we judge faces; physical attractiveness stereotype - the assumption that people who are physically attractive also possess other socially desirable personality traits.

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Lesson 2 – Understanding Others

In this lesson, we look at empathy, mentalizing or understanding the mental states of others; imitation and mirror neurons. 

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Lesson 3 – Interacting with Others

In this lesson, we look at cooperation and competition, and trust.

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Lesson 4 – Interacting with Others

In this lesson, we look at power and status and how they may affect emotional intelligence and ​lead to the objectification of people; how power and status may affect leadership; some broad coaching avenues for improving leadership abilities.

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Lesson 5 – Relationships

In this lesson, we look at love and friendship; how the presence of a loved one may buffer against stress or pain; testosterone and oxytocin.

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Lesson 6 - Relationships

In this lesson, we look at infant attachment and its effects in adulthood.

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Lesson 7 - Relationships

In this lesson, we look at separation, rejection, loneliness, and grief.

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Lesson 8 – Groups and Identity

What elements comprise our sense of identity? Race? Nationality? Gender? Beliefs? Our social identity is defined in terms of the various groups that we belong to.

In this lesson, we look at how we form our identity.

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Lesson 9 - Groups and Identity

In this lesson, we look at group membership, stereotyping, and prejudice. We're all members of a group (racial, ethnic, workplace, etc.) and this can lead to stereotyping of out-groups, and even prejudice. We also look at the Implicit Association Test, the most widely used test of racial bias, and the controversies surrounding it.

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