 This is part one of lecture one. Hi, my name is Tila and I am the coordinator and the teacher of this course I work at the Department of Social Psychology here at Tilburg University where I am an assistant professor And as a social psychologist you study human behavior And I'm gonna talk to you a lot about this topic obviously in this course and my specific interest lies in the area of Love and Relationships. That's really my area of expertise. It's something I'm very passionate about and I'll be talking about this also In a lecture 10 of this course quite elaborately So I actually studied psychology at the Free University in Amsterdam After that I did my PhD at Rapport University in Nijmegen where I started to look into the topic of love and relationships and specifically I aimed to Test and to sort of study why some people are better able to maintain and protect their close relationships than others Of course, it's a very big big question And if you do your PhD you zoom in to one very small part of answering this question And the answer that I came up with and that I tested in my PhD research was that it's really essential For you to be able to control your impulses to be a good relationship partner And I'm very happy that I can talk to you more about this later in this course. So I'm a teacher I'm a researcher and I'm of course your teacher. I also a supervised a master students for example That's also part of my job and besides my work for the university. I also really like talking to People outside of the university about my work and about research I do so sometimes for television shows for example I also regularly give interviews for For example newspapers or I participate in podcasts you name it. So if you want to know more about that you can Study my website or Google my name, then you'll find that plenty of information So finally, I want to tell you something about the the goals that I have for this course Well, first of all, of course, it's really important to learn the core theories and principles of psychology And as I'm going to be discussing later on in this lecture, we're going to zoom in mostly on social psychology So the core theories and principles of social psychology. That's really essential for you to know And with this knowledge, you will be able to explain understand and predict human behavior You're going to learn so much about how we human beings think and why we do what we do And with this you're going to gain insight into societal problems It will help you understand big problems that are that we are currently facing in society And you're going to be able to solve problems or at least parts of the problem using this knowledge Um, these are pretty, you know, big goals that I have. So it's not only my goal for you is not only to pass the course Um, might be your goal, but that's not my goal only I'm more ambitious than than this I really want you to to understand the world that we live in better And I want to take it one step further even I want to change your view your perspective on the world Just like this guy over here standing on the rock seeing things completely differently from a different perspective That's how I would like you to look at the world After this course in about seven or eight weeks I think that if you apply the knowledge if you if you incorporate everything that you're you will be learning over this course To your own life and the things that you see happening around you Um human beings just start making much more sense And you're gonna some things or some behaviors of other people and of yourself will be you know more clear to you And uh, I think it will be better. You will be better able to also understand human beings Be more empathic and also, um deal with with conflicts and problems that you will have with other people If you follow this course, so there's really high standards really ambitious goals but I like that and And I'm very curious at the very end of this course if I succeeded So, uh, I hope you enjoy and I'm looking forward to teaching this course and meeting you all Thank you so much for being here with me This is the start of the course that we'll be having together