[net-gold] [socialpsy-teach] TSP Newsletter - Vol. 11, No. 7
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Subject: [socialpsy-teach] TSP Newsletter - Vol. 11, No. 7
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Teaching Social Psychology Newsletter
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Vol. 11, No. 7
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March 31, 2012
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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Examples
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/examples.htm
Aggression/Prejudice: Victim-blaming
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201203230002
Geraldo Rivera blames the hoodie, in part, for Trayvon Martin's death.
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Persuasion: Saying-is-believing effect
http://www.scientificamerican.com/
article.cfm?id=i-really-like-you
If you say you like a random person will you actually like that person
more? How do you like this issue so far? Come on, you can tell me.
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Prejudice: Institutional discrimination
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/03/sports/
in-texas-islamic-schools-face-tough-road-to-participation.html?_r=1
A private Islamic school was denied admission to a Texas association of
private and parochial schools.
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Prejudice/Social Judgment:
Ingroup bias
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/22/
emma-burton-kansas-fan_n_1371020.html?ref=topbar
5-year-old girl refused to color a picture of a Kansas Jayhawk in school.
She was a diehard Kansas State fan.
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Social Judgment: Priming
Subscriber Renee Bator passed along this excellent example: "My son was in
kindergarten and his birthday party was two weeks away. My husband and I
were trying to decide what type of birthday party to throw for him. We
were going for a hike that morning, and we started the hike discussing the
pros and cons of different options: pool party at the Y, party at our
house, bowling, etc. We continued hiking for some time as I continued to
ponder the different options. We came across an abandoned shack with
broken glass and beer bottles inside. My husband said, "I bet kids like to
party in there." I was horrified!! You couldn't have a birthday party in
there!! After several, "What do you means?!" I realized he meant: local
high school kids like to 'party' (i.e., drink beer and hang out) in there.
I was primed by our discussion and then interpreted his later comment from
that perspective."
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Social Judgment:
Group self-serving bias
http://www.salon.com/2012/03/19/
discussing_the_motives_of_the_afghan_shooter/singleton/
This columnist argues that when the U.S. soldier recently was accused of
killing 16 Afghan civilians there were external, uncontrollable causes
given for his behavior, but when Muslims kill it is clearly internally
caused.
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Articles
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/articles.htm
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Aggression/Social
Judgment:
"Holding a gun makes you think others are too"
http://www.nd.edu/~jbrockm1/
WittBrockmole_inPress_JEPHPP.pdf
http://newsinfo.nd.edu/news/29684-holding-a-gun-
makes-you-think-others-are-too-new-research-shows/
The first link is to the research article; the second link is to a press
release about it.
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Group Influence:
Group members discount outside information
http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/~jminson/Site/
PAPERS_files/Minson_&_Mueller_2011.pdf
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/
releases/two-heads-are-not-always-better-than-one.html
"Prior investigators have asserted that certain group characteristics
cause group members to disregard outside information and that this
behavior leads to diminished performance. We demonstrate that the very
process of making a judgment collaboratively rather than individually also
contributes to such myopic underweighting of external viewpoints." The
first link is to the research article; the second link is to a press
release about it.
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Psychology in the Courtroom:
Physical exertion can weaken eyewitness memory
http://www.alphagalileo.org/
AssetViewer.aspx?AssetId=63182&CultureCode=en
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/
news/releases/just-60-seconds-of-combat-
impairs-memory.html
"Researchers, led by Dr Lorraine Hope of the University of Portsmouth,
found that less than 60 seconds of all-out exertion, as might happen when
an officer is forced to chase-down a fleeing suspect or engage in a
physical battle with a resistant criminal, can seriously impair their
ability to remember details of the incident - or even identify the person
who was involved. Even officers in top condition are not immune to the
rapid drain of physical prowess and cognitive faculties resulting from
sustained hand-to-hand combat." The first link is to the research article;
the second link is to a press release about it.
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Student Resources
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/student.htm
Writing Resources: Sample APA paper
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/18/
Here is an excellent example of a sample research paper annotated with APA
guidelines and formatting advice.
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Teaching Tips
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/sites.htm
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The Testing Effect
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFIK5gutHKM
Subscriber David Myers shares this excellent animated video describing the
value of asking our students to engage in forced retrieval (the testing
effect) through quizzing, practice, and review.
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Topic Resources
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/topics.htm
Aggression/Prejudice: The shooting of Trayvon Martin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Trayvon_Martin
How big is the Trayvon Martin story? It's got its own Wikipedia page.
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Attraction and Relationships:
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Women in red seen as more sexually interested
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/28/
red-dress-effect_n_1307051.html
"To understand why, Pazda and his colleagues conducted a simple
experiment. They showed 25 men a photo of a single woman doctored to look,
in different cases, like she was wearing either a red or white T-shirt.
The researchers then asked the volunteers to gauge, on a scale from 1 to
9, how keen the model seemed to be on romance. In other words, the men
answered the question: 'Is she interested in sex?' Men interpreted the red
outfit as a signal that the woman was indeed more open to sexual advances.
In fact, the guys tended to grade the woman's disposition to sex about 1
to 1.5 points higher when she was wearing a red rather than a white tee,
Pazda and colleagues report online this month in the Journal of
Experimental Social Psychology."
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Attraction and Relationships:
"The power of hello"
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http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/
science-small-talk/201203/the-power-hello
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Subscriber Sam Sommers makes a good case for
the simple acts of smiling and saying "hello."
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Conformity: Is it the role or the person?
http://bps-occupational-digest.blogspot.com/2012/03/
be-all-you-can-be-how-military-training.html
Interesting study looks at the interesting question of whether people in a
certain situation act that way because of the context or chose that
context because of who they are. In this case, the military is the
context. Does the military change your personality? Do certain
personalities choose the military?
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Methods/Social Judgment:
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The Bargh/Chen/Burrows failed replication controversy continues
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/
2012/03/10/failed-replication-bargh-psychology-
study-doyen/
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-natural-
unconscious/201203/nothing-in-their-heads
http://www.yale.edu/acmelab/articles/
bargh_chen_burrows_1996.pdf
In an earlier issue I pointed you to discussion of a failed replication of
the classic priming study in which participants walked more slowly after
priming for old age. Emotions have got quite heated as a number of
psychologists have entered the fray to debate the merits of the original
study and subsequent replications. The first link is to an overview of
the controversy. The second link is to John Bargh's response to it. The
third link is to the original article. Lots of good methodological issues
for your students to consider.
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Persuasion/Social Judgment:
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Is the last chocolate better than the next chocolate?
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/science-small-talk/
201203/getting-the-most-out-life-one-chocolate-time
Subscriber Sam Sommers discusses this clever study in which participants
tasted five chocolates. Half of the participants were told the fifth one
was the next chocolate, and half were told it was the last chocolate.
Those who were told it was the last one liked it better. (I was tempted
to begin this issue of the Newsletter by telling you it was the last
issue, but the panic and deep despair that would likely follow could send
shockwaves through world markets that we just don't need right now.) Ask
your students where else this might apply. How could it be used in
persuasive attempts?
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Prejudice: Minority students receive harsher punishments in schools
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2012/mar/06/
report-says-minority-students-face-harsher-punishm-ar-1743912/
Report from U.S. Department of Education
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Prejudice: Robot prejudice
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/
2012/03/robot-prejudice.html
"Shown identical pictures of the robot, half the students were told the
machine was called Armin (a typical German first name) and that it had
been developed in Germany. The other students were told the robot was
called Arman (a typical Turkish name; Turks are the largest minority group
in Germany) and that it had been developed at a Turkish university. The
students evaluating the supposedly German-built robot Armin, rated it as
warmer, of superior design, as having more of a mind, said they felt
psychologically closer to it, and expressed more of a willingness to live
with it, as compared with the students who evaluated the supposedly
Turkish-built Arman. So not only did the German students show a basic
preferential bias toward the robot that had a German name and provenance,
they also saw it as more human."
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Social Judgment: When is "an eternity"?
http://i.imgur.com/WNQtx.jpg
Depends on what you are waiting for, as this cartoon illustrates. I
wonder how long 5 seconds seems if you are used to waiting 30 seconds.
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Social Judgment: When does your unconscious make better decisions?
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2012/02/
feeling-hungry-better-let-your.html
Apparently, when it has had a hit of sugar. Mr. Pibb, preferably. But
that's just me.
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Social Judgment: "Enclothed" cognition
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2012/03/
introducing-enclothed-cognition-how.html
Readers of this Newsletter will know that I'm a fan of the embodied
cognition research. So, I was also intrigued by this research which
investigated how the clothing we are wearing affects our cognitions. For
example, participants who were wearing white lab coats committed only half
as many errors on the Stroop Test than those wearing their normal clothes.
I recommend a corduroy jacket with patches on the elbows for reading this
Newsletter.
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The Self: Low and high self-esteem users of Facebook
http://www.scienceofrelationships.com/home/2012/2/15/
read-this-before-your-next-facebook-post.html
"Their results indicated that low self-esteem users did not post more
frequently or spend more time on Facebook than did high self-esteem users
(despite the fact that low self-esteem users see Facebook use as more
advantageous). Importantly, posts from those with low self-esteem were
more negative (i.e., expressing anger, anxiety, fear, frustration,
irritability, and sadness) and less positive (i.e., expressing excitement,
gratitude, and happiness). Not surprisingly, raters expressed less liking
for the low self-esteem individuals. It seems like low self-esteem
individuals Facebook usage is backfiring on them."
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Technology in Teaching
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/
crow/technology.htm
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Audio
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General: Series of speakers on a variety of topics including social
psychology
http://cengagesites.com/academic/?site=5100&SecID=
4297&CFID=4404228&CFTOKEN=52746154#.T2ZagpYq2Ig.facebook
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Images
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Aggression: Disturbing vodka "rape" ad
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/25/
belvedere-vodka-rape-ad_n_1377975.html
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Persuasion: Interesting old weight loss ads
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/25/
vintage-weight-loss-ads_n_1373856.html
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Prejudice: Racist Obama bumper sticker
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/15/
racist-anti-obama-sticker_n_1349423.html
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Video
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Prejudice: NHL players push to reduce homophobia in hockey
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/03/04/
patrick-burke-you-can-play_n_1319690.html
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How Do You ... ?
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