Course Detail
Units:
3.0
Course Components:
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement:
Prerequisites: "C" or better in ((PSY 1010 OR PSY 1011 OR AP Psychology score of 3 or higher OR IB Psychology score of 5 or higher) AND (PSY 2500 OR PSY 3460)).
Course Attribute:
Honors Course
Description
Examines social influences on health beliefs, behaviors, and outcomes through multiple pathways. Topics include health cognitions, mental models of illness, risk perception and risk communications, health correlates of personality and religious belief, social support, social comparison, stigma, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, interpersonal aspects of specific mental and personal health issues, and implications for interventions.