Each Spring Dr. Stifter teaches a seminar, with one year covering emotion regulation and the next year covering temperament.

This special topics course is offered every other year (next in spring 2006) to familiarize students with theories of motivational and emotional processes as well as their applications in movement settings. Specific attention will be paid to contextual factors that influence motivation and emotion in movement settings (e.g., sport, exercise, rehabilitation).

Reviews, critiques, and applies major historical and contemporary psychological theories of emotion experience, understanding, and expression. Prerequisite: PSY 002.

This course examines how affect, emotions, and moods alter the way in which people process information, make judgments, and engage in action. Syllabus.

The goal of the course is to introduce psychology I-O graduate students to the usefulness of affect and emotion theories and measures for research on workplace phenomena.