Courses

Have you ever noticed how the people around you shape how you feel, and how your emotions influence other people too? This course dives into the intimate links between our social relationships and emotional lives. We will draw from empirical and theoretical readings from a range of disciplines, primarily affective science and relationship science. This class will encourage students to lean into their personal experiences to identify consequential phenomena, and be rigorous about operationalizing them using quantitative methodologies. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with a researcher’s mindset: a perceptive eye for observing relationships and emotions, a bold spirit for cross-pollinating ideas across subfields, an informed reviewer of study methodologies, and a clear science communicator of our profound interdependence with one another.