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Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 10:58:04 -0500
From: Jonathan Mueller <jfmueller@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: socialpsy-teach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [socialpsy-teach] TSP Newsletter - Vol. 14, No. 9
Teaching Social Psychology Newsletter
Teaching Social Psychology Newsletter
Vol. 14, No. 9
May 30, 2015
the e-mail newsletter accompanying the Resources for the Teaching of
Social Psychology website at
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow
Thanks to all of you who donated to the Kickstarter campaign for the movie
about beliefs. As a result, they met their goal. Hopefully we get a good
product out of it.
Activities and Exercises
Attitudes and Behaviors/Social Judgment/The Self: Moral judgments
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/
observer/2015/may-june-15/teaching-current-directions-
in-psychological-science-22.html#justification
Conformity/Persuasion: Noba Project video winners
http://nobaproject.com/student-video-award/winners
As you may remember, the Noba Project has recently started conducting
annual student video award contests for brief clips illustrating
psychlogical principles. This year's theme was Social Influence. Here
are the winners. You can also read about how your students can enter next
year's contest.
Social Judgment: How powerful/useful is unconscious thought
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/
observer/2015/may-june-15/teaching-current-directions-in-
psychological-science-22.html#decision
Articles
Social Judgment: The power of echo chambers
http://tinyurl.com/nglwcuo
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150526100947.htm
A new study demonstrates the highly contentious debate on climate change
is fueled in part by how information flows throughout policy networks."
Examples
Gender and Culture/Prejudice: Sexism in Hollywood
http://thinkprogress.org/culture/2015/05/21/3661676/
maggie-gyllenhaal-37-told-old-play-love-interest-55-year-old-man/
"Maggie Gyllenhaal, 37, told she was 'too old' to play the love interest
of a 55-year-old man."
Social Judgment/Psychology in the Courtroom: Power of false memory
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/15/nyregion/witness-accounts-
in-midtown-hammer-attack-show-the-power-of-false-memory.html
Errors from witnesses in a New York City hammer attack
Topic Resources
Aggression: Australian anti-sexual harassment campaign
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/17/sexual-harassment-psa_n_6887934.html
Attraction and Relationships: How a perfume company convinced scientists
of human pheromones
http://www.vox.com/2015/3/13/8202465/sex-pheromones
Conformity: Using prisons for ostracism
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/22/banishment/
Gender and Culture: Feminist cartoons
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/30/gemma-correll_n_6950674.html
Gender and Culture: "Are you beach body ready?"
http://thinkprogress.org/culture/2015/04/30/
3653133/ad-asks-beach-body-ready-london-replies-screw/
I was born that way! Unfortunately, it was all downhill after that. Here
is an interesting story about public response to an ad campaign in London.
Gender and Culture/Prejudice: "Middle school removes the word 'feminist'
from girl's shirt in class photo"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/21/
sophie-thomas-feminist_n_7110882.html
She might has well have "terrorist" written on her shirt
General: "The social power of primates"
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/
convention/the-social-powers-of-primates.html
Be sure to check out the 1936 video.
Prejudice: "The myth of the absent Black father"
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/01/16/
3175831/myth-absent-black-father/
A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Prejudice: Two women embracing on a train platform
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/09/
brazil-girls-train-platform_n_7036156.html
This picture has gone viral with a very interesting take
Prejudice: "A research contest for reducing implicit racial biases"
http://www.spsp.org/node/292
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2155175
When this study comparing 17 different strategies for reducing prejudice
came out last year I sent you a link to it. Here is another nice recap
with a good graphic. The second link is to the research article.
Prejudice: "Multinational study uncovers widespread homophobia in sports"
http://thinkprogress.org/sports/2015/05/14/
3658545/report-finds-positive-signs-gays-lesbians-welcome-sports/
Prejudice: "Institutional racism by the numbers"
http://americablog.com/2015/05/institutional-racism-by-the-numbers.html
The Self: Feeling inauthentic
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/
hiding-your-true-colors-may-make-you-feel-morally-tainted.html
"Indeed, participants who wrote about a time they felt inauthentic in one
online experiment reported feeling more out of touch with their true
selves and more impure, dirty, or tainted than participants who wrote
about a time when they felt authentic. They also reported lower moral
self-regard, rating themselves as less generous and cooperative, for
example, than the authentic participants."
Technology in Teaching
Video
Aggression: Sexual consent (2:51)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/14/
consent-tea_n_7282978.html
Excellent video explains consent by comparing it to asking for tea.
Aggression: "Cleveland Cavaliers arena video features man abusing his
girlfriend"
http://thinkprogress.org/sports/2015/05/07/3656246/
cleveland-cavaliers-playoff-video-features-man-throwing-
girlfriend-bulls-fan/
Perhaps they should have just shown the above tea video instead.
Attraction and Relationships: 100 years of Korean beauty in 1 minute
(1:27)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/17/
100-years-of-korean-beauty_n_6887726.html
Gender and Culture: "SNL mocks superhero sexism" (3:00)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/03/
snl-black-widow-trailer_n_7199344.html
Amusing take on how female superheroes are treated differently than male
ones
Gender and Culture: "Last F**kable Day" (4:57)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPpsI8mWKmg
Warning; Graphic language. An amusing clip from Amy Schumer's show about
how women are no longer "f**kable" after a certain age, while men remain
so until they die
General: Talks at SPSP
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEz1DmN-1JlFPA9GeFqZC3w
Like me, have you (and your students) been unable to attend recent Society
for Personality and Social Psychology conferences? Well, here's video of
several of the talks.
Prejudice: White on White violence (7:04)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdSsBYO1oNI#t=375
A spoof from Chris Hayes on the obsession with Black on Black violence
Prejudice: "Homeless people read mean tweets about themselves" (1:19)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/31/homeless-mean-tweets_n_6976920.html
Could be a powerful message
How Do You ... ?
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