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Part One: Introducing Social Psychology

Module 1: Methods in Social Psychology
Module 2: Common Sense and the Hindsight Bias

Part Two: Social Thinking

Module 3: Defining and Expressing the Self-Concept
Module 4: Self-Serving Bias
Module 5: Self-Efficacy
Module 6: The Fundamental Attribution Error
Module 7: Heuristics and Errors in Reasoning
Module 8: Understanding Attitudes and Behaviour

Part Three: Social Influence

Module 9: The Role of Gender, Genes and Culture in Social Behaviour
Module 10: Conformity and Obedience
Module 11: Two Routes to Persuasion
Module 12: Understanding Indoctrination Tactics
Module 13: How the Mere Presence of Others Affects our Behaviour
Module 14: Deindividuation
Module 15: How Groups Intensify Decisions
Module 16: Resisting Social Pressure

Part Four: Social Relations

Module 17: Understanding Aggression
Module 18: Understanding Out-group Bias
Module 19: Prejudice and Discrimination
Module 20: Intergroup Conflict
Module 21: Mediation and Dispute Resolution
Module 22: Helping
Module 23: Interpersonal Attraction
Module 24: Romantic Relationships

Part Five: Applying Social Psychology

Module 25: Media and Social Behaviour
Module 26: Social Psychology and the Law
Module 27: Social Psychology and the Environment