[net-gold] [socialpsy-teach] TSP Newsletter - Vol. 10, No. 1
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:44:08 -0500
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Subject: [socialpsy-teach] TSP Newsletter - Vol. 10, No. 1
Teaching Social Psychology Newsletter
Vol. 10, No. 1
September 24, 2010
the e-mail newsletter accompanying the
Resources for the Teaching of Social Psychology website at
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow
A few items first. Please take a look.
Item 1: Subscriber Catrin Finkenauer sent the following request: "I'm
teaching an undergraduate course on interpersonal communication for
psychologists next year. I’ve been trying to get my hands on material for
such a class. Although there is some great research and I have found some
material, most of what I was able to locate was mainly focused on
communication scientists rather than psychologists. Also, I was unable to
find exercises or activities on interpersonal communication, except for
some great ice-breakers. So, if any of the readers on your list has taught
this sort of course and would be willing to share his or her
syllabus/reading list/activities or exercises with me, I would greatly
appreciate it. Or, if they have any in press papers/chapters that they
think might be of value in this sort of course, please send me them too.
I'd be happy to summarize everything for the list." You can reply to
Catrin at C.Finkenauer@xxxxxxxxx or send replies to me at
jfmueller@xxxxxxxxxxx
I
tem 2: In the Common Sense Quiz found on the Resources website at
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/commonsenseno.htm
there is an item that some students emailed me about wondering if it was
really "False" as listed in the answers to that quiz. Item 26 states
"Male-to-female relationship violence is much more common than
female-to-male relationship violence." I said I would ask this group if
you knew of any research that suggested the statement was true or false.
Anyone have an answer? If so, email me at jfmueller@xxxxxxxxxxx Thanks in
advance for any help.
Item 3: In the last issue I mentioned that I would adapt subscriber
Kristie Campana's first-day-of-class survey to collect some data from
students to use to illustrate concepts later in the term. Well, I
administered that survey, and I wanted to share the survey and my results
with you. Just like Kristie, I handed out two versions of the survey:
Version 1 -
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/
crow/social%20psychology%20survey1.pdf
Version 2 -
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/
crow/social%20psychology%20survey2.pdf
I used some of Kristie's items (thank you again, Kristie) and created a
few of my own. I want to explain what items I included and why, and
share the results, but that would take too much space in the Newsletter.
So, follow the link below to read about the survey. Feel free to give me
any feedback about my questions, or suggest adaptations to the questions,
or suggest new items. I welcome any comments or questions. Description of
survey and results -
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/surveydescription.pdf
Update: When (if) you read the results in the above link, you will see
that Q11 and Q12 related to the cool cleaning smell priming research that
I tried to replicate. Unfortunately, the cleaning smell was not strong
enough today, and I found no difference between the two conditions. Next
time...super strong!
Item 4: International Student "Exchange"? A couple years ago I attempted
to arrange some kind of joint class project or assignment with another
social psychology course in a different country. Unfortunately, that
didn't pan out. However, I still would like my students to interact with
students from a different country, so I am going to try this again. I
will be teaching social psychology in the spring, specifically from March
28 to June 8, 2011. Any subscribers outside of the United States who
would be interested in collaborating on some kind of joint class project
in which your students would electronically interact with my students for
perhaps a two- or four-week period during that time slot? I am open to
all kinds of possibilities. However, your students would have to be
fairly fluent in English. If you are possibly interested or know someone
who might be, drop me a line at jfmueller@xxxxxxxxxxx
Activities and Exercises
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/activities.htm
Conformity: Obedience to authority, normative and informational influence,
all in one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o153Gnl2zTo
Subscriber Jim Matiya passed along this interesting and effective activity
he adapted from one by Gerry Palmer. You can watch the video at the above
link to see how Jim actually carries it out. "Using masking tape, I laid
out the corners of a box about 4 X 4. I show a slide that has this
statement in a powerpoint, 'Research on social influence indicates that
when we are unsure about our judgements, we are likely to adjust them
toward the group standard.' I asked for 4 volunteers to do an activity. No
description of the activity was given. I asked them to leave the class
and go to the hallway. They were asked to decide who was volunteer #1, #2,
#3, and
#4. I went back to the class. Writing and drawing on the board, I told the
class my prediction of the demonstration. I then lowered the screen
covering my predictions. I also asked them to please try and not laugh nor
give any hints to the volunteers.
I went to the hallway and asked person #1 to come inside. I said to person
#1. 'I have a box drawn on the floor. Please stand inside the box.' I went
back to the hallway and got person #2. 'I have a box drawn on the floor.
Please stand inside the box.' (this is so crazy. I did this demo in four
classes. For classes 2 & # 3, I never had to say anything!) The volunteers
looked at #1 and then took a position in the box, facing the same way! I
went to the hallway and asked person #3 to come inside. 'I have a box
drawn on the floor. Please stand inside the box.' With three people
standing in the box, I asked them to turn around and face the board. Then
I told them that after #4 was in the box, wait about ten seconds, then
turn around and face the class. I went to the hallway and asked person #4
to come inside. In the four times I did this demo, I never had to say to
#4, 'I have a box drawn on the floor. Please stand inside the box.' So, I
just watched and observed. Just as I predicted, all the people were in
different corners and facing the board. Then, volunteers # 1, 2, and 3 all
turned and faced the class. #4 didn't know what to do, so he faced the
class as well. The class went wild!! They loved it. It was like the Allen
Funt elevator clips, which I then showed."
If you don't have access to the Candid Camera clip Jim refers to or if you
haven't seen it before, it is worth viewing and can be found here
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/710170/.
Examples
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/examples.htm
Conformity: Violating societal norms: Exposing grandfathers!
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/
world/la-fg-china-bellies-20100821,0,4939438.story
Not as bad as it sounds - but an interesting story
Helping: Identifiable victim bias
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/08/the-identifiable-victim-bias/
Why are we more willing to empathize with and help a few dozen stranded
miners in Chile than the millions affected by the recent flooding in
Pakistan? This article suggests it is, in part, because of the miners are
more clearly identifiable.
Prejudice: Outgroup homogeneity effect
http://townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2010/09/14/purging_evil/page/2
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201008180027
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/
glenn_greenwald/2010/08/23/park51/index.html
They all look alike, they all think alike, they all act alike. Columnist
Cal Thomas puts forth the view shared by many that Muslims are taking
over. They all have the same goal. The second link is to another example
from Glenn Beck. The third link is to an essay from Glenn Greenwald
illustrating the same point.
Prejudice: Nightclub: "No fat girls allowed!"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/13/muzique-montreal-nightclu_n_681172.html
Prejudice: Ingroup/outgroup bias and American exceptionalism
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/09/18/taliban
Prejudice/Social Judgment: Did "cult-like" group commit suicide?
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/09/19/california.missing.group/index.html?npt=NP1
You may have heard this story recently in the news in which "a group of 13
Salvadoran immigrants missing in southern California amid fears that they
planned a cult-like mass suicide have been found alive, unhurt and upset
to find they were the subjects of an extensive search." Why was there an
assumption that they might be out somewhere committing mass suicide? Is
that what we think all "cult-like" groups are capable of? Thinking
about? Are we overestimating the few vivid instances in which that has
occurred? What makes this group "cult-like" anyway? Some video included.
Prejudice: Overt discrimination
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/08/27/nettleton-school-racism/
At Mississippi middle school, only Whites can run for president.
Articles
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/articles.htm
Helping/Social Judgment: "Oxytocin makes people trusting, not gullible"
http://www.psor.ucl.ac.be/personal/
corneille/documents/Oxytocin_Trust.pdf
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/
the-good-life/201008/oxytocin-increases-trust-not-gullibility
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100824103535.htm
The first link is to the research article; the second link is to a blog
entry about the research; the third link is to a news article about it.
The Self: Does money buy happiness?
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/08/27/1011492107.abstract
Specifically, does higher income improve life satisfaction? Yes. Does
higher income increase emotional well-being? No, according to this
research.
Student Resources
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/student.htm
Careers in Psychology: Developing a psychology career focus
http://tinyurl.com/27jfxtm
Study Resources: "Nine evidence-based study tips"
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/
2010/09/9-evidence-based-study-tips.html
Writing Resources: The quality of "paper mill" papers
http://danariely.com/2010/09/15/
new-school-year-plagiarism-and-essay-mills/
Dan Ariely and Aline Grüneisen ran an interesting test on what you get for
your money at paper mills.
Topic Resources
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/topics.htm
Attraction and Relationships: Online dating
http://www.spring.org.uk/2010/09/
online-dating-10-psychological-insights.php
This blog entry provides a good compilation of recent research on online
dating.
Attraction and Relationships: Are we attracted to our relatives (and
ourselves)?
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2010/09/
freud-was-right-we-are-attracted-to-our.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/
sexually-attracted-parents/story?id=11278652
Here is an interesting blog entry describing recent research suggesting
that we are attracted to faces that look like ours and our relatives,
perhaps suggesting that an incest taboo is "necessary" for that reason.
The second link takes you to a video story of a half-brother/half-sister
who have fallen in love.
Conformity: "The significance of social structure"
http://nortonbooks.typepad.com/everydaysociology/
2010/09/the-significance-of-social-structure.html
A good essay on the role structure plays in our lives
Conformity: The evolution of Milgram's obedience studies
http://tinyurl.com/2evgcf4
An interesting description of some of Milgram's earlier thinking about how
to test his ideas
Genes, Gender, and Culture: The glass cliff
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2010/09/
why-are-women-chosen-to-lead.html
"When women are appointed to leadership positions, it tends to be when an
organisation is in crisis - a phenomenon known as the glass cliff." This
blog entry describes some fascinating research: "Real life examples are
supported by lab studies in which male and female participants show a bias
for selecting female candidates to take charge of fictitious organisations
in crisis. Further investigation has ruled out possible explanations for
the glass cliff - it's not due to malicious sexism nor to women favouring
such roles. Now a brand new study suggests the phenomenon occurs firstly,
because a crisis shifts people's stereotyped view of what makes for an
ideal leader, and secondly, because men generally don't fit that
stereotype."
Genes, Gender, and Culture: Maybe they are on to something
http://www.bera.ac.uk/files/2010/09/boygirl1.pdf
In the UK, "girls believe they are better than boys by the age of
four...Moreover, by the age of eight, boys appear to agree with their
classmates, believing that girls are more likely to have what might be
deemed the right qualities to do well at school. Children of both sexes
also think that, in general, adults believe girls do better at school than
boys."
Genes, Gender, and Culture: How do men and women respond to luck?
http://ftp.iza.org/dp5022.pdf
"We present experimental evidence which sheds new light on why women may
be less competitive than men. Specifically, we observe striking
differences in how men and women respond to good and bad luck in a
competitive environment. Following a loss, women tend to reduce effort,
and the effect is independent of the monetary value of the prize that the
women failed to win. Men, on the other hand, reduce effort only after
failing to win large prizes."
Genes, Gender, and Culture: Hourglass and stick figures
http://nortonbooks.typepad.com/everydaysociology/
2010/08/hourglass-and-stick-figures.html
Interesting blog entry on women and body image
Methods: What are online research participants really doing?
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/
2010/09/what-are-participants-really-up-to-when.html
Blog entry describes research on a new tool (a piece of computer code
called UAT -- UserActionTracer) that permits online researchers to track
the actions of the participants.
Prejudice: "Big racial gap in suspensions of middle school students"
http://tinyurl.com/24o2ba9
A report from the Southern Poverty Law Center
Prejudice: French pass ban on facial veils
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/14/
france-passes-full-islami_n_716449.html
"The French Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a bill banning the
burqa-style Islamic veil on public streets and other places, a measure
that affects less than 2,000 women but that has been widely seen as a
symbolic defense of French values." Is this a defense of values or an
attack on a group? Is this pro-women or anti-women?
Prejudice: Expressions of Anti-Islam hate and pushbacks against it
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/13/extremists-islam-mainstream-americans/
Social Judgment: "Feeling clean makes us harsher moral judges"
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/
2010/08/feeling-clean-makes-us-harsher-moral.html
"Half the students were asked to clean their hands with an antiseptic wipe
so as not to soil the shiny surfaces. Afterwards all the students rated
the morality of six societal issues including pornography and littering.
Those who'd wiped their hands made far harsher judgments than those who
didn't."
Social Judgment: Estimating other people's drunkenness
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2010/08/
how-good-are-we-at-estimating-other.html
Can you estimate how good we are at estimating other people's
drunkenness? Read the blog entry and see if your prediction is correct.
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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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