Week 1: Welcome + explanation of the assignments for the semester + The first topic: Witkin and his experiments

Week 2: Culture, emotions, perception, and language

Week 3: Autobiographical memory, false memories, and a Bermuda triangle of memories

Week 4: Collective memory: the horror story of individualists and introverts

Week 5: Behaviorists: what would happen if we assumed they were right? + Who even let them do it?

Week 6: NO LECTURE (I´m away)

Week 7: Midterm discussion

Week 9: (Phrenology, craniology) + Consciousness: a byproduct of evolution?

Week 10: Feral children: language acquisition and what does Genie tell us about language?

Week 11: Is sex a social construct? No, no it´s not! (Based on a true story.)

Week 12: Final position paper discussion