Academic Foundation
PSY705 (Social Bases of Behavior) provided training in social psychology, examining how social contexts shape behavior, cognition, and emotion. The coursework explored temporal perspective theory, interpersonal dynamics, and the integration of postmodern phenomenology with empirical social psychology.
This domain's depth paper examined the relationship between temporal perspective and intimate partner violence, revealing how present-hedonistic and present-fatalistic time perspectives correlate with violent behavior—laying the groundwork for the dissertation research that would follow.