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Subject: [socialpsy-teach] TSP Newsletter - Vol. 11, No. 8
Teaching Social Psychology Newsletter
Vol. 11, No. 8
April 30, 2012
the e-mail newsletter accompanying the
Resources for the Teaching of Social Psychology website at
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow
Good morning. Here, at least. Subscriber Raphael Schuster asked if I
could locate the handout (15-2) that is mentioned in this activity --
http://cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/
pubbooks/morris2/chapter15/medialib/demo/10.html
See the instructor's manual listed there. If anyone has access to that
handout could you send me an electronic copy of it?
Thanks.
Subscriber Susan Goldstein and her colleagues have created this excellent
new resource: "The Making Connections website
(http://makingconnections.redlands.edu), sponsored by the APS Fund for the
Teaching and Public Understanding of Psychological Science, was designed
to provide instructors with psychological research findings and other
scholarly information on specific social issues and assist them, both
pedagogically and conceptually, in linking those social issues to the
psychological constructs and theories discussed in their classes. The
website includes (1) summaries of articles addressing social issues from
recent peer-reviewed social science journals, (2) suggestions for 'making
connections' between specific research findings and psychological
constructs, (3) supplementary podcasts, film clips, and articles, (4)
pedagogy-focused resources on curriculum development, classroom
activities, teaching strategies, and service learning, and (5) links to
professional and non-profit organizations with information on social
issues. The website material is searchable by issue as well as relevant
psychological construct and addresses such topics as truancy intervention,
cultural socialization in transracial adoption, LGB victimization in the
military, smartphone technology in behavioral healthcare, disability and
childhood violence exposure, manifest ethnic identification in employment
situations, global warming beliefs, anti-bullying programs, and resilience
among Afghan women."
Activities and Exercises
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/activities.htm
Prejudice: "Reducing mental illness stigma in the classroom"
http://top.sagepub.com/content/39/2/121.full.pdf
The Self: The think positive experiment
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/activities.htm
Examples
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/examples.htm
Attitudes and Behavior: Saying-is-believing effect
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaCUjmQinXE
Any Bachelor fans out there? The T.V. show? Well, if you missed the
exciting last season, you missed a very clever use of the
saying-is-believing effect. As seen in this video clip, contestant
Courtney lures Bachelor Ben into a mock wedding ceremony. She also
convinces him to write fake wedding vows that they then repeat to each
other as part of the mock ceremony. Unfortunately, the video clip does
not include the very romantic vows themselves, but you get the idea.
Guess who Bachelor Ben finally proposed to? Yep, clever Courtney.
Conflict and Peacemaking: Prisoner's Dilemma
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0qjK3TWZE8#!
Subscriber David Myers pointed me to this game show which apparently
forces contestants into a sort of prisoner's dilemma at the end of each
game, with communication permitted. See the very interesting strategy
this particular contestant uses.
Persuasion: Credible sources
http://adage.com/article/digital/
consumers-love-apple-s-elitist-celebrity-siri-ads/234426/
Apparently consumers like Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel in the new
Apple iPhone ads.
Prejudice: Stigmatizing Muslims in America
http://www.salon.com/2012/04/16/
personalizing_civil_liberties_abuses/singleton/
http://loyalopposition.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/
liberty-and-justice-for-non-muslims/?src=tp
Columnist Glenn Greenwald provides good evidence of a second tier
treatment of Muslims in the U.S. justice system, and surprisingly little
objection to it. The second link provides another article about it.
Prejudice: Institutional discrimination
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/
report-finds-racial-discrepancies-in-upkeep-of-foreclosed-properties/
2012/04/04/gIQAB7W8vS_story.html?wpisrc=nl_wonk
Report finds racial discrimination in upkeep of foreclosed properties.
Prejudice: Institutional discrimination
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-april-2-2012/
tucson-s-mexican-american-studies-ban
The Daily Show has an amusing take on Arizona's banning of the teaching of
ethnic studies in schools.
Articles
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/articles.htm
Social Judgment: "The physical burdens of secrecy"
http://ambadylab.stanford.edu/pubs/Slepian-Masicampo-
Toosi-Ambady_Physical-Burdens-of-Secrecy_in-press_JEPG.pdf
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2012/04/secrets-leave-us-physically-encumbered.html
More embodied cognition research -- those who concealed a significant
secret were more physically burdened by it. The first link is to the
research article; the second link is to a blog entry about it.
Student Resources
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/student.htm
Study Resources: Social psych quiz
https://sbhs-sbhsd-ca.schoolloop.com/blogdocs
Subscriber Chuck Schallhorn offers this nice vocabulary quiz covering many
social psych terms. Look for the link to "Social Psych Examples
Practice," and the key underneath it if you need some help.
Writing Resources: Plagiarism resources
http://www.bowdoin.edu/studentaffairs/academic-honesty/index.shtml
https://www.indiana.edu/~istd/plagiarism_test.html
http://abacus.bates.edu/cbb/quiz/index.html
The first link is to some instruction for students on plagiarism; the
second link is to a good plagiarism test students can take; the third link
is to a tutorial/self-test for students.
Topic Resources
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/topics.htm
Attitudes and Behavior: "Dead indoor plants strengthen belief in global
warming"
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2012/04/
dead-plants-encourage-belief-in-global.html
On the other hand, being exposed to healthy or no plants had no effects on
one's beliefs. What about fake healthy or dead plants? Would a collection
can for a global warming that had a picture of a dead plant increase
donations?
Attitudes and Behavior: Reduce littering with the smell of cleaning
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2012/03/
passengers-litter-less-on-carriages.html
"A team of Dutch social psychologists has proposed a simple solution to
the litter problem on trains - infuse carriages with the citrus scent of
cleaning product. Martinijn de Lange and his colleagues made their
recommendation after conducting a field experiment in which they concealed
seven small containers of cleaning product (spiced up with a little
Capitaine perfume oil) in the luggage racks of two carriages on a train
travelling between Amersfoort-Schothorst and Enkhuizen, a journey of one
hour and forty-four minutes."
Attraction and Relationships: Is cohabitation detrimental to marriage?
http://www.scienceofrelationships.com/home/2012/4/24/
fact-checking-cohabitation-and-marriage.html
Dylan Selterman, at Science of Relationships, provides a nice review of
the controversy and what the research actually says.
Attraction and Relationships: The U.K.'s most beautiful female face?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2132896/
Florence-Colgate-Girl-Britains-beautiful-face.html
Gender, Genes, & Culture: Inverted objectification of women
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/science-small-talk/201204/
sex-objects-in-world-turned-upside-down
Subscriber Sam Sommers describes this interesting study asking
participants to recognize right-side-up and inverted images of semi-nude
males and females.
Gender, Genes, & Culture: More objectification
http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2012/04/03/457543/whats-wrong-
with-this-picture-illustrating-vanity-fairs-women-in-television-article/
General: Cialdini's earlier principles
Long-time subscribers know that I am always fascinated with the history of
psychology. For example, I unearthed the origins of the self-serving bias
a few years ago
(http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/origins.htm). N
Now, an early draft of subscriber Robert Cialdini's principles has been
uncovered:
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/
earlycialdini.htm.
Found among the same papers was this list that may reflect a later draft,
perhaps from a more confused
period of his life:
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/confusedcialdini.htm.
Methods: "Do psychology findings replicate outside the lab?"
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/
2012/04/do-psychology-findings-replicate.html
This blog entry discusses a recent comparison of lab and field results.
Overall, the lab findings fared well out in the real world. However,
social psychology was one of the weaker areas.
Prejudice: "Race: Are we so different?"
http://www.understandingrace.org/home.html
An excellent new resource from the American Anthropological Association:
"Looking through the eyes of history, science and lived experience, the
RACE Project explains differences among people and reveals the reality –
and unreality – of race. The story of race is complex and may challenge
how we think about race and human variation, about the differences and
similarities among people." So far, the site contains papers, an
extensive bibliography, a few instructional materials, and more.
Psychology in the Courtroom: "Stereotype threat in criminal
investigations"
http://makingconnections.redlands.edu/index.php/
stereotype-threat-in-criminal-investigations/
"The author reviewed studies suggesting that police are more likely to
misclassify Black suspects than White suspects as guilty. Once this
occurs, confirmation bias may lead police to seek information that
validates their presumption of guilt, such as focusing on defensive
behavior that stems from stereotype threat. The literature also indicated
that once a suspect is classified as guilty, police are more likely to use
coercive methods, and that the desire to escape from these coercive
methods may lead to false confessions."
Social Judgment: We (slightly) prefer the middle option
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/
2012/04/people-prefer-middle-option.html
In the last issue I presented research on the "last effect" in which
participants preferred a fifth chocolate in a taste test better when it
was presented as the "last" chocolate as opposed to the "next" chocolate.
In an array though, as opposed to a series of experiences, it appears we
have a slight preference for the middle item.
The Self: "8 ways that money can buy happiness"
http://www.bakadesuyo.com/8-ways-that-money-can-buy-happiness
From Dan Gilbert
The Self: Revising your story
http://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/03/revising.aspx
"University of Virginia psychologist Timothy D. Wilson, PhD, is fascinated
by the stories people tell themselves to make sense of the world. Those
personal narratives, he says, can make the difference between living a
healthy, productive life—or not. But the question is: How can we alter
those narratives to enact positive, lasting change?"
Technology in Teaching
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/technology.htm
Audio
Attraction and Relationships: The secret of pronouns
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/04/30/151550273/
to-predict-dating-success-the-secrets-in-the-pronouns
NPR interviews James Pennebaker about his fascinating research on the use
of pronouns and their relationship to dating.
Images
General: Posters/images of psychology from Flickr photostreams
http://www.flickr.com/photos/psychpics/
Video
Aggression/Prejudice: Blaming the victim
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/04/10/461305/stephen-
colbert-to-gays-its-up-to-you-to-keep-us-from-discriminating/
Stephen Colbert, poking fun at some recent comments, provides an amusing
take on this as he advises gays "It's up to you to keep us from
discriminating."
Attraction and Relationships: Pheromone Parties!
http://www.scienceofrelationships.com/home/
2012/4/25/pheromone-parties-the-sweet-smell-of-a-future-partner.html
This story from the Science of Relationships includes a video clip from
the Colbert Report describing a recent dating fad: Attending pheromone
parties.
Attraction and Relationships: "Love in a backward world"
http://www.scienceofrelationships.com/
home/2012/4/22/love-in-a-backward-world.html
For your entertainment
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