Topics in Organizational Behavior: Individual Processes

This course will focus on psychological processes that occur within individuals that cannot be seen but whose existence can be inferred on the basis of people's behavior. Such processes, referred to as individual processes, include personality, emotions, perception, and learning. This course aims to introduce Ph.D. students to both theoretical and applied background on individual processes, with a special emphasis on person vs situation and nature vs nurture debates, evolutionary perspective, and free will. Additionally, we will discuss psychological assessment and its principles, and review both traditional (e.g., tests and questionnaires) and modern (e.g., digital behavioral footprints) approaches to collecting data and measuring psychological constructs.