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Teaching Social Psychology Newsletter
Vol. 13, No. 9
May 29, 2014
the e-mail newsletter accompanying the
Resources for the Teaching of Social Psychology website at
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow
Just a reminder, the next issue (June) will focus on the psychology of
helping. I welcome any links, resources, or ideas to add to the issue.
Thanks. Enjoy the summer/winter.
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Activities & Exercises
Prejudice: Teaching about sexual orientation
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/
observer/2014/may-june-14/teaching-current-directions-in-
psychological-science-13.html#sexual-orientation
Subscriber David Myers provides a good summary of related research and
some suggestions for addressing this controversial topic in your classes.
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Articles
Aggression: Alcohol priming increases aggression
http://www.csulb.edu/~psych/deptinfo/faculty/pedersen/pdf/AlcoholPriming2014.pdf
http://www.spsp.org/news/174194/Aggressive-Behavior-Observed-After-Alcohol-
Related-Priming.htm
Don't need the alcohol, just alcohol-related words can do the trick. The
first link is to the research article; the second link is to a press
release about it.
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Examples
Gender and Culture: Objectification
http://www.everydaysociologyblog.com/2014/05/drafts-and-objectification.html
At a California high school, boys met to "draft" girls to take to the
prom.
Prejudice: Cultural influences
http://americablog.com/2014/05/
new-nintendo-life-game-bans-gay-relationships.html
"Game mega-company Nintendo is finding itself in some hot water after the
company refused to let players pair off in same-sex couples in a game
called 'Tomodachi Life.' The game is intended to recreate everyday life,
including creating virtual families."
Prejudice: Just-world beliefs/rationalize inequality
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/05/02/3432472/temecula-homeless/
The mayor of Temecula, California believes that "homeless people
panhandling on the off ramps are homeless by choice....They have rejected
all forms of help and have chosen instead to play on the sympathy of
generous residents."
Prejudice: Institutional discrimination
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/02/3433529/
poor-black-latino-chemical-spills/
"The people who face the greatest threat from potential toxic chemical
disasters are disproportionately low-income, black, or Latino, according
to a study released Thursday by three environmental groups."
Prejudice: Language
http://americablog.com/2014/05/
time-holocaust-museum-stop-calling-gays-homosexuals.html
Is the term "homosexual" now a pejorative for gays and lesbians?
Topic Resources
Aggression/Gender & Culture: "Snubbed by women" killer and the online
response
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/
elliot-rodgers-killing-spree-what-happened/2014/05/24/
207778ec-e3b2-11e3-810f-764fe508b82d_story.html
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/05/26/3441585/
anti-woman-site-predicts-more-deaths/
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/05/26/3441555/
santa-barbara-shooting-violence-women/
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/05/27/3441669/
when-women-refuse-tumblr/
http://thinkprogress.org/home/2014/05/25/3441489/yesallwomen/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/27/
bar-domestic-violence-joke_n_5397927.html
As most of you in the U.S. know, Elliot Rodger, who made a disturbing
video claiming he was wrongly snubbed by women, shot and killed seven
individuals and wounded many more in a recent shooting spree near the
University of California at Santa Barbara campus. The first link
describes the spree. The second link describes Pick-up Artist (PUA) and
PUAHate websites which many claim foster misogyny and violence towards
women and their potential link to this story. The third link is to a blog
entry suggesting that this act is reflective of a culture of violence
against women, reporting statistics on violence towards women. The fourth
and fifth links describe feminist responses to the spree, the websites,
and the culture in general. And, in a related incident, the last link is
to a story about a bar which posted the following "joke": "I like my beer
like I like my violence: Domestic."
Attraction and Relationships: Flower power!
http://www.scienceofrelationships.com/home/2014/5/7/
flower-power-how-flowers-influence-relationship-choices.html
"But can the mere presence of flowers influence actual relationship
behavior? To test this question, a French researcher randomly assigned
female participants to watch a video of a male discussing food while
participants were either (a) sitting in a room decorated with three vases
full of flowers (roses, marigolds, and daisies), or (b) sitting in a room
decorated with empty vases. Women who sat in the room with flowers rated
the male in the video as sexier and more attractive, and they were more
willing to date him."
Read also about the two very cool follow-up studies.
Attraction and Relationships: The importance of buffering to relationships
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/were-only-human/
the-buffer-zone-romance-and-insecurity.html
In one study, "Anxious partners felt more negative emotions and were less
accommodating, but their partners displayed more accommodating strategies
if they were themselves more committed to the relationship. And these
accommodations led the anxious partner to become more accepting and
positive during the tense conversation. In other words, buffering had
immediate benefits, allaying fears and creating a more constructive
emotional dynamic."
Gender and Culture: Do thin, feminine women win more elections?
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2014/05/23/3440499/
why-thin-feminine-women-win-more-elections/
Gender and Culture: Men magazine readers less likely to respect sexual
boundaries
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/05/29/3442515/
men-magazines-sexual-boundaries/
Gender and Culture: It's her fault
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/05/13/3437464/
teen-girl-prom-impure-thoughts/
"Teen girl kicked out of prom so her dress wouldn't lead boys to 'think
impure thoughts.'"
Gender and Culture: Women cook at home, so why are so few chefs female?
http://www.everydaysociologyblog.com/2014/05/
gender-in-home-kitchens-and-restaurants.html
This blog entry addresses the question.
Methods: Spurious correlations
http://www.tylervigen.com/
Here's a great collection.
Prejudice: "Favoritism, not hostility, causes most discrimination"
http://www.washington.edu/news/2014/05/19/
favoritism-not-hostility-causes-most-discrimination-says-uw-psychology-professor/
This review of 50 years of research finds that although hostile
expressions of prejudice were more common years ago, now discrimination
more often takes the form of favoring those like you.
Prejudice: Segregation increasing in the southern U.S.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/15/
school-segregation-ucla-report_n_5326278.html
Prejudice: A first-hand account of a 7-yr old living in a Japanese
internment camp
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/12/
joyce-nakamura-okazaki-manzanar_n_5289723.html
Prejudice: We mostly hate people we know
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/
were-only-human/the-anatomy-of-everyday-hatred.html
And other facts about hatred from Wray Herbert's excellent blog
Psychology in the Courtroom: A case of false confession in Iceland
http://mindhacks.com/2014/05/15/unsure-memories-of-murder/
"The BBC News site has a special multimedia feature on a case of false
confession to murder that has been troubling Iceland from the 1970s and
has recently erupted again."
Social Judgment: Snap judgments/brief slices
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/
observer/2014/may-june-14/snap-judgment-science.html
A good review of some of the research on how we make very quick judgments,
consciously and unconsciously
Technology in Teaching
Video
Attraction and Relationships/Prejudice:
Why are men reluctant to date overweight women? (7:27)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFdWcNJ17YY
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/05/12/
sarah_baker_on_louie_what_it_was_like_to_play_the_fat_girl_on_louis_c_k.html
http://thinkprogress.org/culture/2014/05/14/3437696/
amy-schumer-louis-ck-fat-girls/
Comedian Louis C. K. gives his take on the subject in this compelling
scene from his tv show. Well worth watching. A good discussion starter.
The second link is to a conversation with the actress who played the
overweight woman in the clip. The third link is to a description and
video of comedy clip about overweight women that has received less
attention.
Attraction and Relationships: Does more effort equal a better
relationship?
http://www.scienceofrelationships.com/home/2014/5/11/
the-benjamin-franklin-effect-how-effort-impacts-attraction-v.html
Dubbed the Benjamin Franklin effect, this video describes a study
investigating what happens when one partner puts a lot of effort into a
relationship. Via Wikipedia, the Benjamin Franklin effect is illustrated
when "a person who has done someone a favor is more likely to do that
person another favor than they would be if they had received a favor from
that person. Similarly, one who harms another is more willing to harm them
again than the victim is to retaliate." As Ben himself told me, "He that
has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he
whom you yourself have obliged."
Prejudice: APS talk by Mahzarin Banaji (1:00:24)
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/
obsonline/overcoming-us-and-them.html
Entitled "Group love: How the mind creates 'us' and 'them'"
Prejudice: "I got fat-shamed on my morning commute"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rachel-gillett/
i-got-fat-shamed-on-my-morning-commute_b_5374019.html
In the last issue, I sent you an article describing how weightism is still
an acceptable form of prejudice. Here's a couple more examples.
Prejudice: Another example that fat-shaming is still "okay"
http://thinkprogress.org/sports/2014/05/07/3435073/barkley-san-antonio/
On a national sportscast, Charles Barkley and cohosts make fun of the
weight of women in San Antonio. Would Donald Sterling be losing his Los
Angeles Clippers team if he had told his girlfriend not to post pictures
of herself with an overweight person? What other groups could he have got
away with disparaging?
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