This course aims at improving students’ understanding of how individuals and groups operate, and why they behave in a certain fashion when confronted with a given problem in a specific context. This approach should also enable students to critically think about their and others’ behavior and motives, rather than take a ‘right or wrong’ perspective. This includes moving away from a traditional ‘one size fits all’ approach, to a more tailored perspective where one takes into account how different cultures, contexts, and conditions may shape behavior. Relevant content includes: intergroup relations and conflict, social categorization, identity and discrimination or minority influence.