Intended for Ph.D. students interested in getting an advanced understanding of social psychology. This seminar will focus on foundational topics such as attitude change, emotion, social influence, and social cognition, covering both classic as well as contemporary research. Each week we will try to gain some understanding of how judgment and behavior is influenced by the contexts in which people find themselves. Each week we will try to identify new research directions worth pursuing, in the hope that students will develop new research ideas of their own.