[net-gold] [socialpsy-teach] TSP Newsletter - Vol. 10, No. 7
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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:00:36 -0500
From: Jonathan Mueller <jfmueller@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: socialpsy-teach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [socialpsy-teach] TSP Newsletter - Vol. 10, No. 7
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Teaching Social Psychology Newsletter
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Vol. 10, No. 7
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March 31, 2011
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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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My colleague, Heather Coon, a couple students and I will be presenting a
poster at APS on Friday afternoon on May 27. Come by and say hello if you
are attending. Also, let me know if any of you are presenting there.
Activities and Exercises
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/activities.htm
Prejudice: Intergroup Monopoly
http://www.socialpsychology.org/action/2011winner.htm
Richard Harvey was the winner of this year's Social Psychology Network
Action Teaching Award with this innovative game. "Intergroup Monopoly is
an action teaching game that modifies the classic Monopoly board game to
explore the dynamics of group-based inequality. In Intergroup Monopoly,
players begin with unequal amounts of money and are given individualized
rules that reflect differing degrees of privilege or disadvantage." Read
more about it at the above link.
Prejudice: Foreign language exercises that promote diversity
http://www.socialpsychology.org/action/2011honor3.htm
Here is an honorable mention for the Social Psychology Network Action
Teaching Award. This is for language classes rather than psychology
classes, but this person has created a lot of good activities that are
worth sharing with language instructors at your school.
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Class Assignments
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/assignments.htm
Project: The Voices Project
http://www.socialpsychology.org/action/2011honor1.htm
Here is an honorable mention for the Social Psychology Network Action
Teaching Award. "
In the Voices Project, pairs of students are assigned to interview someone
from a group toward which they have a negative attitude or a lack of
familiarity (e.g., racial minorities, Muslims, people with AIDS). Students
meet with their interviewee three times and focus particular attention on
experiences that their interviewee has had being a target of prejudice,
stereotyping, or discrimination. In addition, students attend a cultural
event related to the group they're seeking to understand. Based on these
experiences, students then write a five-page autobiography of their
interviewee from the first-person perspective. The project concludes by
weaving the "voices" in these autobiographies into readable monologues
that are performed in an event open to members of the campus and local
community, thereby promoting greater intergroup awareness, perspective
taking, and empathy beyond the classroom."
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Project: Reducing prejudice -- a cultural learning experience
http://www.socialpsychology.org/action/2011honor4.htm
Here is an honorable mention for the Social Psychology Network Action
Teaching Award. "
This action teaching assignment involves three parts. First, students
learn about implicit biases and take an Implicit Association Test that
they believe might reveal a personal bias related to race or ethnicity.
Second, students challenge their bias by immersing themselves in a
cultural setting that allows for interaction with members of the group
they have chosen (for example, someone with a bias concerning Asians might
attend a Chinese New Year celebration, or someone with a bias concerning
Arab Muslims might attend Islamic mosque services). Third, students
interview one or two members of the selected group, asking questions such
as: (a) "What does it mean to you to be a member of this cultural or
ethnic group?" (b) "Have you been personally affected by prejudice and/or
racism?" and (c) "What suggestions can you offer to encourage mutual
respect among various cultural groups?" At the end of this experience,
students submit a report summarizing what they learned and how they'll
continue to challenge their biases and learn about different groups in the
future."
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Examples
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/examples.htm
Aggression/Genes, Gender, and Culture: Violence against women
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/29/bangladesh.lashing.death/index.html
The horrible story of a 14-year-old Bangladeshi girl who died from lashes
after being charged with adultery
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Gender and Culture: Objectification of women
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/26/abercrombie-padded-bikini-8-year-olds_n_841026.html
Abercrombie and Fitch has been criticized for selling padded bikinis to
8-year-olds.
Helping: Bystander intervention
http://amfix.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/04/man-survives-after-96-minutes-of-cpr/
Case of bystanders and a medical team helping a man survive despite going
96 minutes without a pulse
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Prejudice: Minorities should accept superiority of majority/group in power
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/02/24/bryan-fischer-american-indians-should-have-assimilated-like-pocahontas/
Bryan Fisher of the American Family Association: “It’s arresting to think
of how different the history of the American settlement and expansion
could have been if the other indigenous peoples had followed Pocahontas’
example,” Fischer wrote in his Feb. 15 post. “She not only recognized the
superiority of the God whom the colonists worshipped over the gods of her
native people, she recognized the superiority (not the perfection) of
their culture and adopted its patterns and language as her own. In other
words, she both converted and assimilated. … Had the other indigenous
people followed her example, their assimilation into what became America
could have been seamless and bloodless. Sadly, it was not to be.”
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The Self/Social Comparison: Adaptation-level phenomenon
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2011/03/more-serious-brain-injuries-associated.html
Research found that those with the more severe brain injuries reported
greater life satisfaction.
The Self/Social Comparison: Adaptation-level phenomenon
http://www.fidelity.com/inside-fidelity/individual-investing/millionaire-outlook-2011
42% of millionaires don't feel wealthy; need more than 7 million to feel
wealthy. I probably just need 4.8 mil.
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The Self: False uniqueness effect
Is this as unusual as I think it is, or is it just another example of the
false uniqueness effect? I have now had each of my three children and my
wife as students in my courses (each in different courses). Is that the
first time in the history of the world that has happened?
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Articles
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/articles.htm
Conformity: Origins of cultural differences in conformity
http://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~schaller/MurrayTrudeauSchaller2011.pdf
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Interesting research investigating the hypothesis that cultural
differences in conformity "may reflect historical variability in the
prevalence of disease-causing pathogens: Where pathogens were more
prevalent, there were likely to emerge cultural norms promoting greater
conformity."
Psychology in the Courtroom/Social Judgment: Can lawyers predict case
outcomes?
http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/law-16-2-133.pdf
http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/your-lawyer-is-wrong/24535
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Here is another in a long line of research finding that professionals
often err in their judgments and are often overconfident. The first link
is to the research article; the second link is to a blog entry about it.
Social Judgment: Regret aversion
http://arno.uvt.nl/show.cgi?fid=113718
"The current research finds that people are willing to forego a direct
material gain, if that protects them from future regrets. In two
experiments participants endowed with a lottery ticket were offered to
exchange their ticket for another ticket from the same lottery. Even
though they could receive a bonus for exchanging, many participants chose
not to do so."
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Topic Resources
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/topics.htm
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Aggression: The warmer the weather the more hit batters in baseball
http://bigblog.dukechronicle.com/news/heated-ball-games-2/
More significantly, "after a pitcher’s teammates have been hit at bat by
the opposing team during a game, the pitcher is more likely to retaliate
by hitting his opponents at higher temperatures."
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Gender and Culture: Women on boards (in the UK)
http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/business-law/docs/w/11-745-women-on-boards.pdf
"In 2010 women made up only 12.5% of the members of the corporate boards
of FTSE 100 companies. This was up from 9.4% in 2004. But the rate of
increase is too slow." This report look at why this is and how the number
might be increased.
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Gender and Culture: "Women in America: Indicators of social and economic
well-being"
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/Women_in_America.pdf
A report from the White House Council on Women and Girls
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Gender and Culture: Women in U.S. still poorer despite massive strides
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/01/women-in-america-report_n_829691.html
"Despite massive strides, women still lag behind in America. Women have
caught up in education and employment but still earn significantly less
than men, and are more likely to live in poverty, according to a White
House report released on Tuesday."
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General: Mirror neurons and social behavior
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2011/march-11/reflections-on-mirror-neurons.html
Interesting review of what we know so far about mirror neurons -- if
somewhat is watching you read this Newsletter right now, their mirror
neurons may be firing!
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General: Historical figures in social psychology
http://www.socialpsychology.org/social-figures.htm
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Prejudice: Are the unemployed being discriminated against?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keli-goff/do-the-unemployed-face-mo_b_838828.html
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Prejudice: Are Whites racially oppressed?
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/12/21/white.persecution/index.html
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Prejudice: The Hillary Clinton effect
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2011/03/hillary-clinton-effect-how-role-models.html
"An antidote to stereotype threat is to remind people of high achieving
members of their in-group. For example, reminding Black Americans of
President Obama's success has been shown to improve their subsequent IQ
test performance. Psychologists think this 'Obama effect' occurs because
the role-model's salient success takes away the burden people feel of
having to represent their group. A new study by Cheryl Taylor and
colleagues has built on this literature by showing that the
stereotype-busting effect of a role-model only occurs if that role-model's
success is perceived as due to their own innate ability and effort. If the
role-model is considered to have been lucky then their stereotype-busting
power is lost. Taylor's team call this the Hillary Clinton effect."
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Psychology in the Courtroom: The value of metaphors
http://jurylaw.typepad.com/deliberations/2011/02/
using-metaphorical-language-can-cure-an-ailing-case-research-proves-it.html
Interesting study looked at how metaphors can shape jurors'
interpretations and preferences.
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Psychology in the Courtroom: Criminal, legal and investigative psychology
(CLIP)
http://www.clip.org.gu.se/english/
A fairly new site that contains information about forensic research and
relevant stories in the media
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Social Judgment: Stereotype of the driver with front-end car damage
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/science-small-talk/201103/dented-pride
Subscriber Sam Sommers shares another personal and enjoyable (for us, at
least) anecdote in which he suffers the consequences of driving around in
a car that has front end damage. As he notes, if you drive a car with a
beat up back bumper other drivers often think the offender was someone who
ran into you, but if your front end is damaged....
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Social Judgment: "Smells like safe sex"
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sex-murder-and-the-meaning-life/201103/smells-safe-sex
I've mentioned one of my favorite recent students before (Smells like
clean spirit...) in which priming with a faint cleaning smell affected
participants behavioral intentions and behavior. I imagine we will get
quite a few such smell-priming studies. Here is another one in which
priming with a putrid smell led more participants to say they would use
condoms. This would make a good hypothesis-generating exercise for your
students: Can you generate a prediction of how a particular smell might
prime particular attitudes, behaviors, or other outcomes?
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Social Judgment: "Thinking for others can boost your creativity"
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-thinking-for-others-can-boost-your.html
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Social Judgment/The Self: The signature effect
http://www.insideinfluence.com/inside-influence-report/2011/03/
what-is-the-hidden-influence-of-signing-your-name-the-signature-effect.html
This article looks at research studying how writing your signature may
prime or activate your identify which can influence later decisions and
behaviors.
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The Self: LiveHappy -- an iPhone app to increase happiness
http://www.socialpsychology.org/action/2011honor2.htm
This application won honorable mention for the Social Psychology Network
Action Teaching Award. " LiveHappy is an iPhone application with modules
featuring empirically validated happiness-boosting strategies such as
keeping a gratitude journal, performing acts of kindness, and nurturing
interpersonal relationships."
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The Self: "Envy is a stronger motivator than admiration"
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2011/03/envy-is-stronger-motivator-than.html
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Teaching Tips
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/sites.htm
Unconscious processes in teaching
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/
observer/2011/march-11/teaching-with-your-gut.html
Interesting discussion of how automatic processes play a role in teaching,
and how understanding them can enhance your teaching
Technology in Teaching
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/technology.htm
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Instructional Techniques
Designing your own online studies
http://www.thepsychfiles.com/video/OnlineExperiment.mp4
Subscriber Michael Britt
http://www.thepsychfiles.com/
demonstrates through an excellent video how to create an online experiment
for free using Wix.com and Google Forms. Your students could create
online studies through this simple approach as well. Nice job, Michael.
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Images
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Large collection: Worth Publishers
http://worth.runtime.com/
Worth makes freely available hundreds of images in many of their
textbooks.
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"Most sexist product of all time?"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/07/stuffed-girls-heads_n_832621.html
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Persuasion: Credibility of the source
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMNO2Kcvz2k&feature=player_embedded
I'm not clever enough to think of a good April Fool's Day prank to pull on
you, but I share this one from 1957 by the BBC. "The fake footage was
aired as a joke, but viewers called in to find out how they could grow
their own spaghetti trees. Instead of coming clean, the BBC cheekily
replied, "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for
the best."
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Prejudice: Harassment of Muslim-Americans
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/03/03/hatemongering/index.html
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Prejudice: Huckleberry Finn and the N-word
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/60_minutes/video/
?pid=1xNHd5lhIzfWMwqQlzR7NvHnsEXmhX1k&vs=homepage&play=true
60 Minutes had an interesting recent episode on the controversy about
whether schools should use the new version of Huckleberry Finn which
excludes the use of the N-word. You can watch the entire episode here.
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Prejudice: "Racist" rant from UCLA student
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/14/alexandra-wallace-racist-video_n_835505.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/19/alexandra-wallace-student_n_837925.html
This video has made the rounds quite a bit. A student makes a spontaneous
video about her experience with Asians in the library. The first link is
to the video; the second link is to an article describing her decision to
leave the university.
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Prejudice: Is Peter King an Islamophobe?
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/04/peter-king-video/
U.S. Representative Peter King recently held hearings on "The Extent of
Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community’s
Response.” Do the claims in this video along with the accompanying fact
checks indicate bigotry in Peter King?
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Social Judgment: Another change blindness video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWSxSQsspiQ&feature=player_embedded
From Dan Simon's "door" study
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Social Judgment: Hindsight bias
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSR-uefPmME
A skit from the comedy show MadTV in which a psychic is taken to task
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