3.00 Credits
A Psychology Honors course that is available to PSY Honors HBA and HBS students only. Examines social influences on health beliefs, behaviors, and outcomes through multiple pathways. Topics include health cognitions, mental models of illness, risk perception and risk communications, health correlates of personality and religious belief, social support, social comparison, stigma, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, interpersonal aspects of specific mental and personal health issues, and implications for interventions.