HD 3620 Syllabus - Spring 2019 PDF

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Cornell University Department of Human Development HD 3620: Human Bonding Spring 2019 Instructor: Office Hours: Blackboard Site:

Professor Hazan, ASB 180 Tuesday, 4:15 - (walk-in), and by appointment (ch34) HD 3620 – Hazan – Spring 2019

Graduate TAs:

Tayler Eaton (te82), Tuesday, 1:30 – 2:30, Big Red Barn HEAD TA Alisha Meschkow (am2769), Wednesday, 12 – 1, MVR G251 Contact regarding Blackboard. Ashley Ransom (asr288), Thursday, 1 – 2, Beebe Hall 1st Floor - Ashley's Cubicle Contact regarding special needs. Betul Urganci (bu33), Thursday, 11 – 12, ASB 157 Miscellaneous administration. Li Guan (lg536), Monday, 2-3, HEB 101 Contact regarding extra credit. Michael Creim (mdc264), Friday, 12-1, Beebe Hall 2nd Floor - Purpose and Identity Contact regarding make-up exam location. Processes Lab Cubicle Xinyi Li (xl624), Tuesday, 12:10 – 1:10, ASB 170 Contact to request a make-up exam.

Lectures:

Tuesday & Thursday, 2:55 - 4:10 (Statler 185)

Course Description: As members of a highly social species, humans have long been concerned with understanding interpersonal relationships. More recently researchers began applying the methods of modern psychological science to the task. It is well documented that our daily wellbeing, overall psychological adjustment, and even physical health depend in large part on the quality of our relationships. Our continuance as a species turned on the successful negotiation of three major adaptive challenges: surviving to reproductive age, mating, and providing adequate care to our offspring so that they too survive to reproduce. Social relationships lie at the core of all three. Indeed, dependence on and interdependence with our conspecifics is a fundamental fact of the human condition. Relationship science encompasses a large, heterogeneous and multi-disciplinary field of theory and research. This course examines human bonding primarily from a psychological perspective, drawing on empirical and theoretical work from the fields of developmental, clinical, evolutionary, cognitive, personality, and social psychology, and secondarily from ethology, anthropology, sociology, and neuroscience. The central goal of the course is to define and explain the basic structure, functions, dynamics, and formation of human affectional ties, especially those of the attachment, caregiving and mating variety. Although the course covers all periods of development beginning with infancy,

approximately two-thirds of the lectures and readings focus on adulthood. Required Reading: [see Blackboard.] The readings are selected from a range of sources, including books, edited volumes, and scientific journals. Together they provide a sampling of the major topics, issues, theories, and methods of relationship science. Exams: There are two prelims and a final exam. Prelims are given in class. All make-up exams must be approved in advance (see above for TA contact info). Please note that a zero will be assigned for any exam missed without prior approval. The final is cumulative and given outside of class during the exam period. Cornell policy states that final exams may take place only at the university assigned time, or at a designated “make-up” time at the end of the final exam period. In other words, there will be no early finals. (Optional) Extra Credit: Throughout the semester there will be opportunities to earn extra credit by serving as a research participant. See the SONA web site (cornellpsych.sona-systems.com) for details. Extra credit points (a maximum of six) are automatically added to your raw prelim total. The last day to earn extra credit for this class is Friday, May 10th. Please note that extra credit cannot raise a final course grade from A to A+ or from F to D-. Academic Integrity: Every student in this course is expected to abide by the Cornell University Code of Academic Integrity: https://cuinfo.cornell.edu/aic.cfm. Also, note that students are not authorized to replicate, reproduce, copy, or transmit lectures and course materials presented, or “derivative” materials including class notes, for sale or general distribution to others without the written consent of the faculty or academic staff member or class participant who is the original source of such materials. Note that these behaviors constitute academic misconduct (see above link for details and associated penalties). Course Grades: The prelims plus any extra credit count for 60% of your course grade; the remaining 40% is based on the final exam. 97-100% = A+, 93-96% = A, 90-92% = A-, 87-89% = B+, 83-86% = B, 80-82% = B-, etc. Less than 60% = F. Less than 70% = U.

SCHEDULE OF TOPICS AND EXAMS (subject to change)

January 22nd Introduction and Course Overview January 24th – February 12th: Attachment in Early Life (attachment theory, the attachment behavioral system, ontogeny of attachment, coadaptations, co-regulation, non-human primate attachment, other social-behavioral systems, patterns of attachment, developmental sequelae, and the transition to adulthood) February 14th: Catch-up and Review February 19th: PRELIM ONE February 26th: NO CLASS (February break) February 28th – March 12th: Attraction and Mating March 14th – March 26th: Romantic Infatuation and Sexual Desire March 28th: Documentary film, “For Better or for Worse” April 2nd - 4th: NO CLASS (Spring break) April 9th: Online Dating and Theoretical Models of Mate Selection April 11th: Catch-up and Review April 16th: PRELIM TWO April 18th – 23rd: Love, Intimacy, Commitment, Monogamy, Jealousy April 25th – 30th: Rejection, Infidelity, Breakups, Divorce May 2nd: Relationship Effects on Morbidity and Mortality May 7th: Take-Home Tips and class questions Final Exam: Sunday, May 12th, 7pm...