Taylor Swift University Course on Social Psychology – Billboard

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Taylor Swift has grown into one of the biggest superstars on the planet — and a new Arizona State University course digs into what psychologists can learn from her life.

The course, called The Psychology of Taylor Swift — Advanced Topics in Social Psychology, is being offered this fall and will be taught by PhD student Alexandra Warmley. “The course basically uses Taylor Swift as a semester-long example of different phenomena — gossip, relationships, revenge,” she said. ASU’s news site, “The class isn’t a seminar about how much we like or dislike her—we want to learn about psychology.”

He added that themes from Swift’s various albums will be combined with psychology fame For example. “Taylor’s sixth album, fame, his comeback after disappearing from the spotlight due to conflicts with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. He gets his revenge on them by dropping an incredibly successful album with a stadium tour — and a wider media landscape —,” he explained. “The students know this — but do they know why we want revenge? Do they know how we take revenge? Social psychology can tell us.

Swift has increasingly been the subject of research at many universities across the country. In February 2022, the superstar taught its first class at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. Rolling Stone Author Brittany Spanos. Last August, the University of Texas at Austin released a new liberal arts course titled Literary Contests and Contexts – The Taylor Swift Songbook, in which the singer-songwriter’s work was examined alongside Chaucer, Shakespeare, Wyatt, Coleridge, Keats, Dickinson, and more. and Plath with “Essential Texts,” including her four recent albums.

Most recently, Stanford announced the Winter Quarter course.All Do Well (10 Week Edition),” which promises an “in-depth analysis” of the emotional lyrics of the No. 1 hit, taught by alum Nona Hungate.