[net-gold] [socialpsy-teach] TSP Newsletter - Vol. 10, No. 11
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Teaching Social Psychology Newsletter
Vol. 10, No. 11
August 26, 2011
the e-mail newsletter accompanying the Resources for the Teaching of
Social Psychology website at
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow
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Articles
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/articles.htm
Conformity: "Money and mimicry: When being mimicked makes people feel
threatened"
http://www.csom.umn.edu/assets/166247.pdf
http://cognobytes.wordpress.com/
"When participants were made to think about money and then asked to judge
another person who was mimicking them, they liked a mimicking participant
less compared to those who were not reminded of money. This was due to
their enhanced feeling of threat, potentially because mimicry was seen as
an infringement on the feeling of self-sufficiency and autonomous
goal-pursuit." The first link is to the research article; the second link
is to a brief blog entry about it.
Persuasion/Social Judgment: Company brands produce positive priming but
slogans the opposite
http://www.bm.ust.hk/mark/staff/Amy/Amy%20JCR%20-%202011%20April.pdf
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3336
Fascinating -- "For instance, exposure to the retailer brand name
“Walmart,” typically associated with saving money, reduces subsequent
spending, whereas exposure to the Walmart slogan, “Save money. Live
better,” increases it. Slogans cause reverse priming effects and brands
cause priming effects because people perceive slogans, but not brands, as
persuasion tactics." The first link is to the research article; the
second link is to a blog entry about it.
Activities and Exercises
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/activities.htm
Prejudice: Multicultural teaching: Information and strategies
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/tstrategies/tsmdt.php
An extensive set of resources for teaching multicultural topics and issues
from the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of
Michigan
Class Assignments
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/assignments.htm
Project: Teaching social categorization
http://top.sagepub.com/content/38/3/158.abstract
A recent Teaching of Psychology article: "This article details a
multi-modal active learning experience to help students understand
elements of social categorization. Each student in a group dynamics course
observed two groups in conflict and identified examples of in-group bias,
double-standard thinking, out-group homogeneity bias, law of small
numbers, group attribution error, ultimate attribution error, and moral
exclusion. Students individually wrote papers detailing their
observations. The author then carefully structured students' small and
large group discussions so students could present and compare their
findings orally. Pretest–posttest analyses revealed that students had a
more complete and accurate understanding of social categorization after
participating in this assignment than they did after merely reading the
relevant textbook chapter."
Examples
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/examples.htm
Helping: Example of heroic rescue
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43880728/ns/world_news-europe/
During the recent Norwegian massacre, a tourist helped rescue several
teens on the island where the shooting took place.
Prejudice: Institutional racism
http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/07/25/38410.htm
A Black student with the highest GPA was not allowed to be sole
valedictorian at her high school because, allegedly, it would create a
"big mess." A White student was appointed a co-valedictorian.
Prejudice: Stereotypes in the media
http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/18/
nivea-apologizes-for-controversial-ad-in-esquire/?on.cnn=1
"Nivea apologizes for controversial ad in Esquire."
Online Lectures
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/lecture.htm
Video lectures: Social Psychology: Self & Society: Instructor: Robb Willer
http://freevideolectures.com/Course/2428/Social-Psychology-Self-and-Society/1
Topic Resources
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/topics.htm
Attraction and Relationships: Most romantic U.S. city?
http://www.scienceofrelationships.com/home/2011/8/5/
redbox-and-the-most-romantic-city-in-the-united-states.html
I always like to see interesting ways of measuring things. Most romantic
city? The one that rented the highest percentage of romantic comedies
through Redbox (a kiosk often located in front of or inside stores from
which someone can rent a movie). Follow the link to find out if it is
your city...
Attraction and Relationships: Oxytocin boosts trust, and attractiveness in
more masculine male faces
http://www.scienceofrelationships.com/home/2011/8/12/
oxytocin-takes-the-ass-out-of-masculinity.html
Interesting study -- more masculine males can be seen as more dangerous.
But a shot of oxytocin up the nose caused both males and females to view
the more masculine males as more attractive.
Attraction and Relationships: Humor and attraction
http://www.scienceofrelationships.com/home/2011/8/19/
humor-and-attraction-who-likes-a-joker.html
"A recent study indicates that men are more likely than women to use humor
when getting to know potential romantic partners, and that women use sense
of humor as a criteria for evaluating partners more than men. In addition,
when analyzing online personal ads, researchers found that men tended to
mention their own sense of humor, while women stated a preference for a
funny partner. Finally, a woman’s rating of a man’s sense of humor
predicts her romantic interest in him. However, a man's perception of a
woman’s sense of humor is unimportant for his desire to get to know her."
Attraction and Relationships: One downside of attractiveness
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/science-small-talk/
201108/when-being-beautiful-backfires
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2011/08/
it-doesnt-always-pay-to-be-pretty.html
Same-sex others reviewing your job application may respond more negatively
to your attractiveness. You've been warned.
Attraction and Relationships: Similarity and attraction
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/science-small-talk/201107/who-do-you-love
Subscriber Sam Sommers provides a good summary of some recent research on
how we are attracted (and want to sit by) similar others.
Conformity: Milgram's prison study revisited 40 years later
http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2011/julaug/features/spe.html
Stanford Magazine revisits the study 40 years later with interviews of
some of the key players.
Conformity: Social acceptance and rejection
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110812213032.htm
A ScienceDaily article about a good Current Directions in Psychological
Science article reviewing recent research on acceptance and rejection
General: "Social networking sites and our lives"
http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Technology-and-social-networks.aspx
A report from the Pew Research Center providing a detailed look at our
online experience based on survey research -- you can view the surveys
also.
General: More on mirror neurons
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/
observer/2011/july-august-11/reflecting-on-behavior-giacomo-
rizzolatti-takes-us-on-a-tour-of-the-mirror-mechanism.html
Here's a good overview of what we know about mirror neurons and their
relationship to behavior in this article about Giacomo Rizzolatti's talk
at the APS convention.
Genes, Gender, & Culture: Dads, daughters, and sports
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/science-small-talk/
201107/dads-daughters-and-raising-sports-fan
A very nice essay from subscriber and father Sam Sommers
Helping: "The 'haves' show less empathy than 'have-nots'"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44084236/ns/health-behavior/
t/rich-are-different-not-good-way-studies-suggest/
Helping: "Chimpanzees not as selfish as we thought"
http://news.discovery.com/animals/chimps-share-110808.html
Often let others take the last slice of pizza
Methods: Statistics resources
http://www.causeweb.org/resources/
CAUSEweb presents lots of good instructional resources for undergraduate
statistics including lesson modules, computer and hands-on activities,
datasets, analysis tools, and multimedia.
Persuasion: Can grammar affect an election?
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2011/07/
how-simple-point-of-grammar-could.html
"Imagine you encountered the following text: 'Timmy Tucker is a senior
politician. Last year Timmy championed human rights, and was fiddling his
expenses.' Now compare with this version: 'Timmy Tucker is a senior
politician. Last year Timmy was championing human rights, and fiddled his
expenses.' How does each version affect your view of Timmy Tucker? New
findings from Caitlin Fausey and Teenie Matlock suggest that the first
version is more likely to damage Timmy's re-election prospects." Read to
find out why.
Prejudice: "The roots of the Islamophobia network in America"
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/08/pdf/islamophobia.pdf
A detailed report from the Center for American Progress on how
Islamophobia has been funded and disseminated in America
Prejudice: Elmhurst College first in U.S. to ask prospective students if
LGBT
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/
Elmhurst-College-to-Ask-About-Sexual-Orientation--128378348.html
The College is seeking diversity on campus
Psychology in the Courtroom: False confessions
http://www.economist.com/node/21525840
This brief article reviews some recent research on false confessions.
Psychology in the Courtroom: "34 years later, Supreme Court will revisit
eyewitness IDs"
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/23/us/23bar.html
An article from The New York Times
Technology in Teaching
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/technology.htm
Audio
Attraction & Relationships: Am I Normal (Sexually)?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012l2yz
Interesting, 30-minute episode in BBC radio's Am I Normal series
Images
Persuasion: Billboards from 1885-1990s
http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/oaaaarchives/
A collection of over 16,000 billboards from the Outdoor Advertising
Association of America organized by product and company -- lots of
interesting examples to see.
Prejudice: Tulsa race riot of 1921
http://www.utulsa.edu/mcfarlin/speccoll/
collections/RaceRiot/indexphotos.htm
A large collection of postcards and photographs
Video
Attitudes and Behavior: Inconsistency over "class warfare"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/19/
jon-stewart-rips-fox-news_n_931177.html
Jon Stewart on The Daily Show takes conservatives to task for hypocrisy
over class warfare in this amusing video.
Attraction and Relationships: What is french kissing called in France?
http://www.scienceofrelationships.com/home/2011/8/14/
good-kissing-video.html
Here's a cute little video montage of kissing accompanied by some facts
including the answer to the above question.
Attraction and Relationships: Does spousal conflict impair the immune
system?
http://www.scienceofrelationships.com/home/2011/8/15/
in-sickness-and-in-health-pick-your-battles-w-videos.html
Video and text describing an interesting study testing this question
Gender and Culture/Persuasion: Airbrushed ad banned in UK
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/07/28/
airbrushed.advertisements.ban/index.html
Apparently Julia Roberts and supermodel Christy Turlington looked too good
in the ad.
Helping: The evolutionary benefits of altruism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shw1gQwBlNM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsFxWSuu_4I
Two brief lectures from Dacher Keltner at UC Berkeley
Persuasion: Robert Cialdini discusses influences on his research
http://bigthink.com/ideas/13076
Prejudice: Group biases in primates
http://bigthink.com/lauriesantos#!video_idea_id=20710
Interesting video of researcher Laurie Santos who discusses outgroup
biases in monkeys
Prejudice: "It gets better": Stephen Colbert
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/20/
stephen-colbert-it-gets-better-video_n_904970.html
Prejudice: Video collection from UnderstandingPrejudice.org
http://www.understandingprejudice.org/multimedia/
A lot of good brief videos organized by topics
Prejudice: Whites in Mississippi seek out and kill first Black person they
find
http://www.americablog.com/2011/08/see-what-racism-breeds-cnn-shows-video.html
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