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Teaching Social Psychology Newsletter
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Vol. 10, No. 10
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June 30, 2011
the e-mail newsletter accompanying the
Resources for the Teaching of Social Psychology website at
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http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow
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I mentioned in the last issue that I would share subscriber Eric Hansen's
(whose name I misspelled last time; sorry, Eric) and my experience with
our students collaborating on a small, social psychology project. His
students are in Sweden, mine in the U.S. Unfortunately, our terms did not
overlap very well, so the project was more limited than initially
conceived. But we gained valuable experience in trying such an
international project. We decided to use Facebook as our medium for
collaboration and communication. That part worked out quite well. Not
surprisingly, our students were quite familiar and facile with Facebook.
(Wow. I'm usually never able to create good alliteration. :-) I set up a
separate group on Facebook that was private to just our two classes; only
class members could read each others' comments and ideas. For the first
part of the project, we assigned each student in both classes two of
Cialdini's six principles. Each student was required to post an example
from their own country of each, with at least one of the examples to
include a link to something online such as a video example. We created
"docs" in the group for each principle. Students posted their examples
under the respective doc. That way we could keep them more organized and
easy to find. Students and faculty were then able and did comment upon
each others' examples, sharing some cross-cultural knowledge in the
process. The second part of the project was more collaborative. One
student in Eric's class was assigned to a group with either two, three, or
four of my students. My class was larger. Each group then either selected
a "problem" (e.g., how to reduce texting while driving) from a few we gave
them or selected their own problem. Each group then posted a brief
solution to the problem using Cialdini's principles. Although the project
was given on short notice with little time to complete it, and at the very
end of my term, I believe the students did an excellent job with both
parts.
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What did I learn from this experience? First, I was very pleased to learn
that Eric was a great colleague to work with. He had good ideas, good
energy, was flexible, and just a very pleasant person to work with.
Second, we learned that Facebook worked very well as a medium for this
type of collaboration. Students were very familiar and facile(!) with it.
Virtually no training necessary. At least for them! Facebook worked as a
good tool for both communication and collaboration. I can see a lot of
potential for it on both those fronts. Third, I was pleased to find that
the students were very flexible and willing to work with us as we tried to
figure out how to make this work. I would definitely do something like
this again. In fact, if any of you are teaching social psychology in the
spring of 2012 and are interested in some type of collaborative project
for our students drop me a line. Or, if you would like to try some type of
collaborative project with somebody on this list, and you either can't do
it next spring or just don't want to work with me, let me know and we can
match up some others on this list. Lots of good potential there. If you
have any more questions about our project drop me a line.
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On another front, a subscriber asked if I could provide some resources on
teaching social psychology online, or create a section on the Resources
site about it. I will look for such resources. If you have any ideas,
resources, suggestions for such resources or for creating such a section
on the website, please pass them along. Are there others out there who
like such stuff?
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Just a reminder: There will be no July issue. See you again in August!
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Examples
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http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/examples.htm
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Genes, Gender, & Culture: Gender roles
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/05/
obedient-wives-club-malaysia_n_871447.html
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This article describes the formation of the "obedient wives" club, a
group of 800 or so women in Malaysia who believe marriage can be saved and
fruitful if the wives obey their husbands and keep them sexually
satisfied. Response to the group in Malaysia is described.
Genes, Gender, & Culture: Gender roles
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lynn-peril/
office-wife_b_871158.html#s287209&title=MISS_REMINGTON_1908
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An interesting and brief history of the role of the office secretary
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Persuasion: Fear appeal
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http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/06/21/cigarette.labels/index.html?on.cnn=2
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An article about the new, more graphic images to be placed on cigarette
packages in the U.S. -- do your students think they will work?
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Prejudice: Institutional racism
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/opinion/
30blight.html?_r=2&ref=opinion&pagewanted=all#h[]
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This is a nice essay on the origins of Memorial Day and how the roles of
Blacks in developing that day were almost erased from history.
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Prejudice: Institutional racism
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/06/04/230979/
islamophobia-machine-sharia/
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This blog entry describes how South Carolina is trying to institutionalize
its Islamophobia through a law to ban the practice of Sharia.
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Prejudice: Racial profiling
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/07/
aclu-illinois-state-polic_n_872586.html
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A report from the ACLU details racial profiling in the Illinois State
Police on traffic stops.
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Prejudice: Religious sources
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/14/
bible-cited-as-reason-for-kicking-gay-men-out-of-public-pool/
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"Activists in Kentucky are planning a peaceful response after two gay men
with developmental and intellectual disabilities were kicked out of a
public pool. A maintenance technician reportedly cited the Bible while
telling the two men they couldn't swim at The Pavilion, a
government-funded recreational facility in Hazard, Kentucky. "We own this
place and can tell you to leave if we want to," the couple was told,
according to the Kentucky Equality Foundation. "The Pavilion staff
immediately entered the pool area and asked my clients and their staff to
leave the Pavilion," Mending Hearts Executive Director Shirlyn Perkins
recalled. "My staff asked The Pavilion staff why they were being asked to
leave, and they were informed that 'gay people' weren't allowed to swim
there."
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Prejudice/Social Judgment: Stereotypes
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http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/
science-small-talk/201106/the-big-deal-about-breasts
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Subscriber Sam Sommers presents an interesting summary and commentary of
research finding a negative stereotype about breastfeeding.
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Teaching Tips
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http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/sites.htm
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Student engagement
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http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2011/06/
is-it-time-to-rethink-way-university.html
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This article describes a study that investigated an interesting array of
student engagement techniques as a means to promote better learning.
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Topic Resources
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http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/topics.htm
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Aggression: "The world's most dangerous countries for women"
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http://www.trust.org/trustlaw/news/
factsheet-the-worlds-most-dangerous-countries-for-women/
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A factsheet from TrustLaw
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Aggression: "Is male libido the ultimate cause of war?"
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http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2011/06/
is-male-libido-ultimate-cause-of-war.html
This blog entry describes recent research suggesting that priming through
"pictures of attractive women or women's legs had a raft of war-relevant
effects on heterosexual male participants, including: biasing their
judgments to be more bellicose towards hostile countries; speeding their
ability to locate an armed soldier on a computer screen; and speeding
their ability to recognise and locate war-related words on a computer
screen. Equivalent effects after looking at pictures of attractive men
were not found for female participants."
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Genes, Gender, & Culture: "Saudi women driving ban challenged"
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/17/
saudi-women-driving-ban-protest_n_878887.html
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Genes, Gender, & Culture: Americans still prefer having male over female
babies
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michaela-haas/
oh-boy-the-antigirl-bias-_b_884399.html
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I prefer penguins, but my wife was very much against it.
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Genes, Gender, & Culture: Can we eliminate gender roles?
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/26/
gender-bias-egalia-preschool_n_884866.html
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Okay, perhaps this school isn't trying to eliminate gender roles, but it
is trying to reduce the presence of specific gender roles for boys and
girls in the school by avoiding "using words like 'him' or 'her' and
address the 33 kids as 'friends' rather than girls and boys. From the
color and placement of toys to the choice of books, every detail has been
carefully planned to make sure the children don't fall into gender
stereotypes." But they can act like penguins as much as they like! My
kind of school.
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Genes, Gender, & Culture: The "commercialisation and sexualisation of
childhood"
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https://www.education.gov.uk/publications/
eOrderingDownload/Bailey%20Review.pdf
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A report from the UK Department of Education
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Genes, Gender, & Culture: "When did girls start wearing pink?"
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/
When-Did-Girls-Start-Wearing-Pink.html
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Genes, Gender, & Culture: "Women warriors" as resilient as men
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110607105336.htm
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"Women service members who experience combat are apparently as resilient
as the men they serve alongside, according to a study published by the
American Psychological Association."
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Helping: The Explore website
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http://www.explore.org/
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Explore is a website that "champions the selfless acts of others."
The site includes video examples, lesson plans, and other resources.
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Prejudice: "Erasing Hate"
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http://tinyurl.com/3n9lta2
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"For years, Bryon Widner thrived on hate as a violent skinhead - a
razor-carrying "enforcer" who helped organize other racist gangs around
the country. His hate was literally etched on his face in the form of
tattoos with racist and violent themes. But with the help of the Southern
Poverty Law Center - the nation's leading monitor of hate and extremist
activity - Widner left the white power movement and endured nearly two
years of excruciating laser treatments to remove the tell-tale tattoos so
that he could start a new life with his wife and children. On Sunday
night, his story will be told in "Erasing Hate," which airs at 9 p.m. EDT
on MSNBC. The one-hour documentary recounts Widner's life within the white
power movement, the decision that led him and his wife to leave it, and
the procedures he received."
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Social Judgment: Jumping to a conclusion
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http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/
science-small-talk/201106/weiner-any-other-name
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Subscriber Sam Sommers provides a nice description in his blog entry about
our tendency to jump to quick conclusions about people based on limited
information, using the case of Representative Anthony Weiner as an
example.
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Technology in Teaching
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http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/technology.htm
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Video
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Aggression: Bullying
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http://www.apa.org/news/press/video/
this-is-psychology/bullying.aspx
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A video on recent research on bullying from the American Psychological
Association
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Genes, Gender, & Culture: 1949 Teen dating educational film
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17-XtkyRRdI&feature=player_embedded#at=147
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Yikes.
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Prejudice: San Francisco Giants and ItGetsBetter.org
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1TcD95kmGQ&feature=player_embedded
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The Giants are the first professional sports team to create a video for
the It Gets Better Project. The purpose of the project is described this
way on the site: "Many LGBT youth can't picture what their lives might be
like as openly gay adults. They can't imagine a future for themselves. So
let's show them what our lives are like, let's show them what the future
may hold in store for them."
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Prejudice: Therapy to change "feminine" boy
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http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/07/sissy.boy.experiment/index.html?hpt=hp_c1
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CNN report about a sad but interesting case of a government-funded program
to eliminate a boy's feminine behavior
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Prejudice: Humorous mockumentary for a gay Canadian rugby team
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txg9PBGy7FY&feature=player_embedded
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How Do You ... ?
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Ever wonder how your fellow social psych instructors handle a certain
topic or issue in their courses? Then send me your "How Do You..?"
question and I will try and post it here. If I get some answers I will
post them in the following issue.
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Request Line is Open!
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Yes, I take requests; in fact, I encourage them. Are there particular
types of resources you would like examples of? Particular topics you are
interested in? Teaching tips? Technology tips? I want to tailor this
newsletter to your needs. So, please feel free to send me your requests,
suggestions, comments and resources. Send them directly to me
(jfmueller@xxxxxxxxxx) or by replying to this message.
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