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Social Psychology

Code: 100448 ECTS Credits: 6
2025/2026
Degree Type Year
Criminology FB 1

Contact

Name:
Blanca Callen Moreu
Email:
blanca.callen@uab.cat

Teaching groups languages

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Prerequisites

The course will be taught from the perspective of the Sustainable Development Goals.

The language of the theorerical sessions will be Spanish. The language of the seminars will be: 11 and 12, to be confirmed (depending on the teacher); 13, Spanish. 


Objectives and Contextualisation

1. Demonstrate  understanding  about  social psychology foundations, their relationship with criminology and being able and critically reflect on them.
2. Being able to use criminological methods to analize data on crime, conflict and social control and being able to reflect on possible responses to these problems.
3. Knowing the management of basic tools for working in multidisciplinary teams.


Learning Outcomes

  1. CM10 (Competence) Manage and exercise leadership in teamwork in the development of a prevention plan to achieve good results.
  2. CM11 (Competence) Apply empathy and listening skills to establish a good working alliance with the community, offenders and victims.
  3. CM12 (Competence) To exercise reflection and apply critical thinking, from a gender and (anti-discriminatory) perspective, in the analysis of legal decisions.
  4. KM08 (Knowledge) Relate criminological concepts to the psychological concepts that underpin them.
  5. SM14 (Skill) Use psychological concepts with solvency in written or oral presentations.
  6. SM15 (Skill) Analyze conflict and delinquency situations from psychosocial concepts and theories.

Content

PART I. INTRODUCTION

1. What is Social Psychology? Social Psychology & Criminology

PART II. SOCIAL THOUGHT

2. Impression formation and Implicit theories of personality

3. Self-presentation and impression management

4. Cognitive biases and heuristics

  i. Information input/heuristics bias

  ii. Attribution processes biases

  iii. Information output biases

PART III. ATTITUDES AND SOCIAL INFLUENCE

5. Attitudes and influence(s) on them

6. Conformity and pressure for uniformity

7. Obedience and authority

8. Persuasion

PART IV. IDENTITY

9. Social categorization and stereotypes

10. Individual identity and social identity

11. Intergroup relations, prejudice and social discrimination

PART V. HUMAN RESOURCES AND WORK TEAMS

12. Cohesion

13. Leadership


Activities and Methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Lectures (includes EV4: Forum contributions) 19.5 0.78
Seminar (includes EV4: participation) 19.5 0.78
Type: Supervised      
Mentoring 1 0.04
Type: Autonomous      
Exam (EV5) 5 0.2
Individual Work (EV1, EV2, EV3) 64 2.56
Team work (EV3) 41 1.64

EV1, EV2 (16% + 16% of the value of the final mark): Individual deliveries. Analysis of own experiences and/or readings applying theoretical content developed in the classroom and extended with bibliography.

EV3. Group delivery (18% of the value of the final mark): Judgement analysis.

EV4. Active and positive participation in the group dynamics sessions (included in the classroom seminar hours) and contributions to the Moodle Classroom Forum, by sending comments and questions for each of the compulsory readings (10% of the value of the final mark).

EV5. Final examination (40% of the value of the final mark): Multiple choice exam.

All subject materials (guide, session materials, submission requests, etc.) are reviewed to ensure non-sexist language use. Furthermore, the requested submissions must be adapted to a language that is neither sexist nor discriminatory on the grounds of belonging to any social group or category. 

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.


Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
EV1 & EV2. Individual Work 32 0 0 CM11, CM12, KM08, SM14, SM15
EV3. Group Work 18 0 0 CM10, CM11, CM12, KM08, SM14, SM15
EV4. Participation in group dynamics sessions and contributions to Forum 10 0 0 CM10, CM11, CM12, KM08, SM14, SM15
EV5. Exam 40 0 0 CM12, KM08, SM14, SM15

A) CONTINUOUS EVALUATION SYSTEM

1. Evaluation model

Continuous evaluation so that students, together with teachers, can monitor their degree of achievement of teaching objectives and competences. In this way, students take an active role in guiding and promoting their own learning process.

- Students will present 2 individual learning evidences (EV1 and EV2: 16% of the final grade each of the individual evidences) and one group (EV3: 18% of the final grade). A quantitative and qualitative return of each piece of evidence will be made via the Virtual Campus.

- Collaborative work will be carried out in the seminar, which will be evaluated. This collaborative work and active participation in the subject also includes participation in the Moodle Classroom Forum, through contributions with comments and questions about the compulsory readings of the subject. (EV4: 10% of the final grade). Participation in the Forum will have a qualitative collective return in the corresponding theory session. The grade of this evidence will be proportional to the number of contributions and the level of participation and collaboration in classes. 

- At the end of the semester, students will take a multiple choice exam on the contents worked on in the subject. (EV5: 40% of the final grade). A numerical return will be made and students will be able to self-evaluate their answers by consulting the template of published answers. 

Attendance is mandatory at 80%, except reasonable justification. Absences can only be justified for: a) illness (justified); b) force majeure and c) attendance at academic activities, authorised a priori by the teacher.

2. Conditions of the evaluation

  • Only evidences that follows the instructions contained in the evidence guide will be evaluated.
  • Students will be evaluable as long as they have carried out and submitted a set of activities, the weight of which is equivalent to a minimum of 2/3 of the total grade for the course. If the value of the activities carried out does not reach this threshold, the student will be considered as not evaluable.

3. Requirements to pass the subject

Attendance at lectures and seminars (minimum 80%, except for reasonable justification).

It is necessary to obtain a minimum of 5 in each one of the items of the evaluation (individual works, group work and final proof).

The maximum mark for the resit of final exam and the rest of evidences will be a pass mark (5).

4. Resit

In case of failing some of the evidences, students will have the opportunity of a second chance.

Professors will allow to repeat individual and grupal works during the teaching period once the teachers' feed-back has been received regarding the activities, according to the stipulated calendar.

In case of failing the final exam, there will be an opportunity to repeat the exam in the day fixed by the faculty.

5. Fraudulent conducts

If there is evidence of fraudulent or no transparent use of any AI tool or plagiarism and/or copying in some of the learning evidence, that evidence will be graded with a 0 and cannot be recovered. Taking into account the requirements to pass the subject, this implies failing the subject.

USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: For this course, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is permitted exclusively for support tasks, such as bibliographic or basic information searches, text correction, or translations. Students must clearly identify which parts have been generated using this technology, specify the tools used, and include a critical reflection on how these have influenced the process and the final result of the activity.

6. Punctuality

Sessions start on time. Late arrival and early departure are not allowed, except reasonable justification.

B) SINGLE EVALUATION SYSTEM

1. Multiple choice exam: (40% of the value of the final mark)

This exam will include the contents of the theoretical classes as well as the materials and required bibliography indicated for each subject.

2. Analysis and reflection report (35% of the final grade), which includes:

i. A section on formation and impressions' management.

ii. A section on the development of a persuasion experiment.

iii. A section on the psychosocial analysis of a sentence.

This report will be a maximum of 10 pages and will be submitted virtually on the course Moodle platform on the date set for the single evaluation.

On another date, within the evaluation period, there will be a short test consisting of a written answer to an open questionon the topics covered in the report. The purpose of this test is to verify the authorship of the work and the understanding of its contents, as part of the evaluation of the evidence.

The materials and bibliography provided in the “workshops” section of the course Moodle must be used to prepare this report.

3. A summary of the material provided for the group dynamics: (25% of the final grade)

This summary must be prepared using the materials provided in the group dynamics section of the course Moodle and must cover all the topics of the five proposed group dynamics.

The summary report must be submitted virtually on the course Moodle on the date set for the single evaluation.

On another date, within the evaluation period, there will be a short test consisting of a written answer to an open question on the topics covered in the summary. The purpose of this test is to verify the authorship of the work and the understanding of its contents, as part of the evaluation of the evidence.

Resit: In the event of having to resit some of the evidences that make up the single evaluation system, they can be resited in the period established by faculty. 


Bibliography

Mandatory readings:

For each topic subject in the Moodle Theory section of the subject, the corresponding mandatory readings are provided.

Reccomended references:

Ibáñez, T. (Coord.). (1997). Psicología Social. Edicions de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

Feliu, J. (Coord.), Calsamiglia, A., Cubells, J., Martínez, L., Pallí, C., & Pujal, M. (2019). Bases Psicosociales en Criminología. UOC.

Complementary references:

Albert, L., & Simon, P. (1989). Las relaciones interpersonales. Herder.

Albert, L., & Simon, P. (1989). Las relaciones interpersonales. Manual del animador. Herder.

Barker, M., & Scheele, J. (2017). Queer. Una historia gráfica. Melusina.

Burr, V. (1995). Introducción al construccionismo social. Edicions de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya i Proa.

Cardona, P. (2011). Cómo desarrollar las competencias de liderazgo. EUNSA Ediciones Universidad de Navarra.

Feliu, J. (Coord.), Calsamiglia, A., Cubells, J., Martínez, L., Pallí, C., & Pujal, M. (2019). Bases psicosociales en criminología. UOC.

Gordo, A. J., & Linaza, J. L. (Eds.). (1996). Psicologías, discursos y poder. Visor.

Ibáñez, T. (Coord.). (1997). Psicología social. Edicions de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

Ibáñez, T. (2001). Psicología social construccionista. Universidad de Guadalajara.

Íñiguez, L. (2001). Identidad: de lo personal a lo social: Un recorrido conceptual. In E. Crespo (Ed.), La Constitución social de la subjetividad (pp. 209-225). Catarata.

Moscovici, S. (1985). Psicología social I y II. Ediciones Paidós.

Sánchez, E. (2000). Teoría del liderazgo situacional en la administración local: Validez del modelo. Psicothema, 12(3), 435-439.

Shotter, J. (1993). Realidades conversacionales. La construcción de la vida a través del lenguaje. Amorrortu.


Software

The delivery of the evidence, the evaluation and feedback thereof will be carried out through the Moddle platform within the framework of the UAB Virtual Campus.


Groups and Languages

Please note that this information is provisional until 30 November 2025. You can check it through this link. To consult the language you will need to enter the CODE of the subject.

Name Group Language Semester Turn
(SEM30) Seminaris (30 estudiants per grup) 11 Catalan second semester morning-mixed
(SEM30) Seminaris (30 estudiants per grup) 12 Catalan second semester morning-mixed
(SEM30) Seminaris (30 estudiants per grup) 13 Spanish second semester morning-mixed
(TE) Theory 1 Spanish second semester morning-mixed