The Emotional Mind

Harvard Extension School

PSYC E-1702

Section 1

CRN 26719

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Not only do emotions permeate our everyday lives, they have aided in the survival of the human species. But what are emotions and what are they good for? What causes us to experience an emotion? And how do emotional responses, in turn, influence our perception, memory, decision making, and psychological well-being? This course addresses these questions by drawing on key advances from historical, philosophical, psychological, and neuroscientific perspectives.

Registration Closes: January 23, 2025
Credits: 4

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Term

Spring Term 2025

Part of Term

Full Term

Format

Online

Credit Status

Graduate, Noncredit, Undergraduate

Section Status

Waitlisted

Instructor Info

Leah Somerville, PhD

Grafstein Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University


Meeting Info

1/27 to 5/17

Participation Option: Online Asynchronous

In online asynchronous courses, you are not required to attend class at a particular time. Instead you can complete the course work on your own schedule each week.

Deadlines

Last day to register: January 23, 2025

Notes

The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences companion course Psychology 1702. Registered students can ordinarily live stream the lectures Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:30-2:45 pm starting January 27 or they can watch them on demand. The recorded sessions are typically available within a few hours of the end of class and no later than the following business day. Class sessions for this course may include students enrolled in the FAS companion course. Accordingly, when you participate in live class sessions, you will do so alongside both Division of Continuing Education (DCE) and FAS students. If you participate in a way that causes you to appear in recordings of the class, those recordings may be shown to DCE students enrolled in this course or FAS students enrolled in the companion course, according to the policies of the two schools on accessing recordings of class sessions.

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CRN Section # Participation Option(s) Instructor Section Status Meets Term Dates
26719 1 Online Asynchronous Leah Somerville Waitlisted Jan 27 to May 17

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