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Subject: [socialpsy-teach] TSP Newsletter - Vol. 11, No. 4
Teaching Social Psychology Newsletter
Vol. 11, No. 4
December 15, 2011
the e-mail newsletter accompanying the
Resources for the Teaching of Social Psychology website at
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow
Activities and Exercises
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/activities.htm
Attraction/Prejudice: The Similarity Project
http://www.everydaysociologyblog.com/2011/12/the-similarities-project.html
In one version of this activity, starting in groups of four, students are
asked to identify as many similarities as they can between their different
groups. Then they join larger and larger groups to see if they can
identify even more similarities.
Class Assignments
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/assignments.htm
Exams Online: Multiple-choice questions
http://sccpsy101.wordpress.com/home/quiz-questions/
Chapter 6 from subscriber Jeff Ricker's Introduction to Psychology course
includes multiple-choice questions for social psychological topics. Also
take a look at his excellent online "lectures" about the Chapter 6 topics.
Examples
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/examples.htm
Conformity: Keeping up with neighbors
http://randyreport.blogspot.com/2011/12/holidays-house-decorations.html
I just like this picture.
Prejudice: Racial profiling
http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/
racial-gap-found-in-traffic-stops-in-milwaukee-ke1hsip-134977408.html
"A black Milwaukee driver is seven times as likely to be stopped by city
police as a white resident driver, a Journal Sentinel analysis of nearly
46,000 traffic stops has found."
Prejudice: Institutional prejudice
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/09/fbi-muslims-radical/all/1
"FBI teaches agents: 'Mainstream' Muslims are 'violent, radical.'"
Prejudice: Institutional discrimination
http://www.kentucky.com/2011/11/30/1977453/
small-pike-county-church-votes.html
Church banned interracial couples from becoming members. That ban has
since been rescinded.
Articles
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/articles.htm
Helping: Empathy in rats?
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6061/1427.full
http://www.wbez.org/story/scientists-demonstrate-empathy-rats-94696#
Here's a very cool study suggesting that rats may be capable of empathy.
The first link is to the research article; the second link is to a news
story about it. Get some chocolate chips to munch on and watch the video
in the news story.
Topic Resources
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/topics.htm
Aggression: A violent enforcer in hockey
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/sports/
hockey/derek-boogaard-a-boy-learns-to-brawl.html
Here's an excellent three-part series on the life and death of hockey
brawler Derek Boogaard who died at the age of 28.
Attraction and Relationships: "Language style predicts relationship
longevity"
http://www.scienceofrelationships.com/home/2011/12/5/
words-matter-language-style-predicts-relationship-longevity.html
"Recently, researchers have found that similarity in communication
patterns predicts mutual romantic interest and relationship stability 3
months down the road. And we’re not even talking about similar use of big
fancy words. Rather, it’s the small words that we would generally consider
“fillers”, such as pronouns (I, her, that), articles (a, an, the),
conjunctions (and, but, because), and the like that matter. In what
researchers call “language style matching’” (or LSM, for short),
individuals’ conversations may begin to subtly become synchronous.
Sometimes our conversations are high in LSM, which means there is a lot of
matching in language use, whereas other conversations are low in LSM,
which means we are speaking to one another in quite different styles. In
the researchers’ first study, 40 speed-dating couples had their 4-minute
interaction recorded, and transcriptions of these interactions were
entered into a language analysis computer program. Couples who had higher
LSM (again, they matched in their use of pronouns, articles, conjunctions,
etc.) were more likely to show mutual romantic interest in one another.
This effect was not due to the total number of words being spoken in the
conversation (that is, it’s not because two “Chatty Cathys” were paired up
and talking each other’s ears off)."
General: Social psych in Seinfeld
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/
science-small-talk/201112/the-science-seinfeld-top-7-life-lessons
I've waited half my adult life for this: Subscriber Sam Sommers has
identified seven important life lessons that can be drawn from the TV show
Seinfeld, with accompanying clips! If you could point me to other clips
from any show or movie or other source illustrating any phenomena I would
much appreciate it, and I may even send you a Gortex coat!
Genes, Gender, and Culture: Girl Scouts of America (GSA)
http://www.everydaysociologyblog.com/
2011/12/gender-and-organizations.html
Good blog entry about how the GSA and other similar organizations may
reflect the gender norms of a society
Helping: "Loving" increases donations
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/
2011/12/mention-of-word-loving-doubles.html
"French researchers say that adding the text 'donating=loving' to a
charitable collection box almost doubled the amount of money they
raised." What if you put "donating=giving money" on the box? Or,
"donating=enabling dependency of no-good, lazy people"? Or, "help adopt a
penguin!" So many possible follow-up studies your students could
conduct. Or, you could have them justify a variation/hypothesis based on
previous research.
Helping: What's the best way to beg for money?
http://danariely.com/2011/11/30/can-beggars-be-choosers/
Here's an interesting field study in which a student dressed as a
panhandler (how do they dress?) tested the following: "When people walked
by, Daniel would either be sitting down (the passive approach) or standing
up (the active approach) and he would either look them in the eyes or not.
So there were times when he was 1) sitting down and looking people in the
eyes, 2) sitting down and not looking people in the eyes, 3) standing up
and looking people in the eyes, or 4) standing up and not looking people
in the eyes." Read to find out what he found, I beg of you.
Persuasion: Applying Cialdini's principles to uncertain situations
http://www.insideinfluence.com/inside-influence-report/
2011/12/persuasion-the-third-leg.html#more
Persuasion: When should a company put its logo on a gift?
http://www.insideinfluence.com/inside-influence-report/
2011/12/speaking-of-bungling-holiday-giving.html#more
Prejudice: Florida Family Association attacks Muslim TV show
http://floridafamily.org/full_article.php?article_no=108
Here is the website of the organization that is one of the primary
instigators of the withdrawal of some advertisers from the TV show
All-American Muslim. The site states, "The show profiles only Muslims
that appear to be ordinary folks while excluding many Islamic believers
whose agenda poses a clear and present danger to liberties and traditional
values that the majority of Americans cherish." See The Daily Show take
on it in the videos below.
The Self: "Symbolic interactionism on the road"
http://www.everydaysociologyblog.com/2011/12/
symbolic-interactionism-on-the-road.html
Good blog entry discussing symbolic interactionism and self-concept as it
relates to the act of driving
Technology in Teaching
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/technology.htm
Audio
Persuasion: Neuroscience and influence
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/moreorless#playepisode2
Click on the "Brain Culture Part 3" and hear an interesting podcast about
recent neuroscience research "asking if new knowledge about the human
brain will allow us to make better choices or leave us open to ever more
manipulation."
Videos
Aggression/Prejudice: "Teen's powerful anti-bullying video"
http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2011/12/04/
teens-powerful-anti-bullyng-video/
Very compelling
Attraction and Relationships/Conformity: Third date = sex?
http://www.scienceofrelationships.com/home/2011/12/12/
the-third-date-rule-fact-or-fiction.html
A clip from the show The Big Bang Theory raises the question of whether
"the idea that the third date is the 'sex date,' the date when it is
deemed appropriate for a new couple to have sex" is a social norm or just
a myth.
General: Variety of brief videos
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073370665/
student_view0/social_sense_video_library.html#
These are short videos accompanying subscriber David Myers' Social
Psychology text, including video of many prominent researchers discussing
their ideas.
Prejudice: The All-American Muslim TV show controversy
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/14/jon-stewart-tlc-
all-american-muslim-florida-family-association_n_1147927.html
The Daily Show provides some humorous commentary on one of the sources of
pressure on advertisers to withdraw their ads from the current TV show
All-American Muslim.
Prejudice: Racist rant on tram in UK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy8_Z5b3yBw
You may have seen this, and you may decide it is too vulgar for you to use
with your students, but it is a rather dramatic example.
How Do You ... ?
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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