Experimental Relativity

Level: Undergraduate

Division: Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts

Department: Psychology

Course Number: LPSY 4008

Course Format: Seminar

Location: NYC campus

Permission Required: No

Topics:

• Social Sciences
• Psychology

Description:
What’s universal in the human mind, and what is shaped by people’s experience of interacting with the physical and social world? In this course we will explore how the diversity of the human experience is reflected in the mind. 20th-century theories of concepts emphasized their innateness and universality, but recent studies suggest that people with different patterns of linguistic, cultural, and bodily experience think differently, in predictable ways. By investigating the ‘experiential relativity’ of the mind, we will seek to uncover universal processes by which people turn their concrete interactions with the environment into abstract thoughts.

Course Pre/Co-requisites:
Introduction to Psychology course and one Fundamentals course or permission of instructor.

Restrictions:

Level

Open to Undergraduate students.

Class

Open to Junior students.

Open to Fifth Year students.

Open to Senior students.