Social psychology is the study of how people think, feel, and behave in the real or imagined presence of other people, and what reciprocal impact it has on others. It is a discipline at the interface of individual and society, with the potential to illuminate major social problems, violence, inequality, injustice, progress from the standpoint of the psychology of the individual. This graduate level Core Course in Social Psychology offers a view on several of social psychology s major domains of study. The aim of the course is to acquaint the participants with currently dominant conceptual paradigms, major topics of study and empirical methods aimed at testing social psychological hypotheses within those paradigms. Participants in the course will read a review and an empirical paper pertinent to the topic at hand, to be discussed in class.