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Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:41:44 -0500
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Subject: [socialpsy-teach] TSP Newsletter - Vol. 9, No. 10
Teaching Social Psychology Newsletter
Vol. 9, No. 10
June 30, 2010
The e-mail newsletter accompanying the Resources for the Teaching of
Social Psychology website at
<http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow>
My annual reminder -- there is no July edition of the Newsletter.
See you again in August.
May I brag about my son for a moment? He told me that he and his friends
are going to find a kids' soccer game and show up with some vuvuzelas to
serenade them. Makes a father proud. If you are "enjoying" the perpetual
hum at the World Cup you might enjoy this article from The Onion:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/south-african-vuvuzela-philharmonic-angered-by-soc,17625/.
Now on to more important stuff. Subscriber Kristie Campana sent me the
following two surveys (one for each half of her class) she distributes at
the beginning of her social psychology course. The data she collects
allows her to illustrate the false consensus effect, actor-observer bias,
and other phenomena during the semester. It's a great idea to collect a
lot of this data all at once at the beginning of the course. Some of you
probably already do this. Now we can put our collective heads together to
improve upon it even further! Send me your suggestions for other items to
put on the survey to collect more data to illustrate other social psych
phenomena. I will send out those suggestions in the next issue, and you
can build your own survey if you like. I know I will start doing this.
Thanks.
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/survey1.pdf
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/survey2.pdf
Activities and Exercises
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/activities.htm
Psychology in the Courtroom: Which defendent is more culpable?
http://forensicpsychologist.blogspot.com/
2010/04/killing-and-culpability-reader.html
Very interesting exercise which asks how the moral character of the victim
and the killer affects judgments of culpability.
Examples
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/examples.htm ;
Genes, Gender, and Culture: Cultural differences
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/
16-products-they-only-sell-at-chinese-walmarts/
"Sixteen items they only sell at Chinese Walmarts"
Prejudice: Institutional racism
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/
2010/06/04/20100604arizona-mural-sparks-racial-debate.html
You may have heard of this recent event in Arizona. Artists creating a
mural at a school were apparently ordered by the principal to lighten the
color of the faces of the children in the mural as a result of racist
statements made by passersby.
Social Judgment: Superstition
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/
2010/06/lucky-number-plates-go-up-in-value-when.html
In Hong Kong, license plates with the "lucky" number 8 sold for more and
those with the "unlucky" number 4 sold for less when economic times were
bad.
Social Judgment: Confirmation bias -- ignoring disconfirming evidence
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/
glenn_greenwald/2010/06/23/delusions/index.html
Glenn Greenwald makes the case in this essay that many who are complaining
that the International Committee of the Red Cross is being denied access
to an Israeli prisoner ignore the many times when "their side" does the
same thing.
Social Judgment/Psychology in the Courtroom: Change blindness in the
courtroom
http://theinvisiblegorilla.com/blog/2010/06/13/change_blind_courtroom/
An attorney attempted to use change blindness to get his client off for a
traffic violation. Find out what happened...
Articles
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/articles.htm
Genes, Gender, and Culture: Pink is for boys, and blue is for girls
http://www.springerlink.com/content/v17324p7g47771gk/fulltext.pdf
I don't know if you can access this article, but it provides some
interesting history on the association of colors to gender. Apparently in
the U.S. pink was seen as appropriate for boys and blue for girls at the
turn of the 20th century. It was not until 1950 or so that the blue is
for boys and pink is for girls became established.
Helping: Empathy in ravens?
http://www.plosone.org/article/
info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0010605
http://sciblogs.co.nz/skepticon/2010/06/23/
ravens-and-empathy-the-role-of-bystanders-after-conflict/
I always like research that tries to find "human" qualities in other
species. Is it possible to determine if ravens can empathize?
Prejudice: Children of lesbian parents more competent, less deviant
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/peds.2009-3153v1
http://forensicpsychologist.blogspot.com/
2010/06/new-study-children-of-lesbians-more.html
The first link is to the research article; the second link is to a blog
entry about it.
Social Judgment: Sensations of touch and weight influence social judgments
http://web.mit.edu/joshack/www/Ackerman_Haptic-priming2010.pdf
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/
60542/title/Social_judgments_take_touching_turns
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/06/touching-cognition/
Some more cool embodied cognition research -- "In six experiments, holding
heavy or light clipboards, solving rough or smooth puzzles, and touching
hard or soft objects nonconsciously influenced impressions and decisions
formed about unrelated people and situations." The first link is to the
research article; the second and third links are to articles about the
research.
Social Judgment: Riskier the less hungry you are
http://www.plosone.org/article/
info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0011090
Those who ate a 2066-calorie meal made riskier decisions an hour later
than those who fasted. Okay, interesting. But who eats a 2066-calorie
meal? No wonder we are all obese. Blame it on researchers!
Topic Resources
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/topics.htm
Attraction: "Even virtual attractiveness changes how people treat you"
https://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/article/view/779/717
http://neoacademic.com/2010/06/16/
even-virtual-attractiveness-changes-how-people-treat-you/
Pick an attractive avatar in the virtual world and others (and you) will
treat you differently. The first link is to the journal article; the
second link is to a blog entry about it.
Attraction and Relationships: "Romantic songs make women more open to
dates"
http://noustuff.wordpress.com/2010/06/19/romantic-songs-make-women-more-open-to-dates/
Attraction and Relationships: "Want romance? Show a little gratitude"
http://www.scientificblogging.com/
news_articles/want_romance_show_little_gratitude
Men and, particularly, women were less likely to break up with someone who
had showed small acts of gratitude. However, no manipulation occurred, so
is the above headline warranted?
Genes, Gender, and Culture: Innate gender differences and video games
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/
science-small-talk/201006/mars-and-venus-the-video-arcade
Subscriber Sam Sommers does a nice job of using some research on spatial
training through video game play on the overemphasis of genetic
explanations for gender and other differences.
Group Influence: Acetomeniphen reduces pain of social rejection
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2010/06/headache_pill_reduce.html
Yep, soon there will be a pill for everything. Apparently, "social
rejection and physical pain really do share some of the same brain
circuits." The first link is to the journal article; the second link is to
a blog entry about it.
Persuasion/Social Judgment: Do we unconsciously evaluate objects/products?
http://neurokuz.blogspot.com/2010/06/are-we-conscious-or-unconscious.html
Here is another study examining whether or not the fMRI can be used to
detect consumer preferences.
Psychology in the Courtroom: Manipulating memory
http://www.slate.com/id/2254054/pagenum/all/
Slate magazine has an excellent eight-part series on how memory can be
manipulated.
Psychology in the Courtroom: "Federal judge rules against fMRI lie
detector"
http://forensicpsychologist.blogspot.com/
2010/06/federal-judge-rules-against-fmri-lie.html
Social Judgment: Lie detection through drawings
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2010/06/drawing-out-truth.html
Very cool study -- "Aldert Vrij's new study involved 31 police and
military participants going on a mock mission to pick up a package from
another agent before delivering it somewhere else. Afterwards the
participants answered questions about the mission. Crucially, they were
also asked to draw the scene of the package pick-up. Half the participants
acted as truth-tellers, the others played the part of liars. Vrij's team
reasoned that clever liars would visualise a location they'd been to,
other than where the exchange took place, and draw that. They further
reasoned that this would mean they'd forget to include the agent who
participated in the exchange. This thinking proved shrewd: liars indeed
tended not to draw the agent, whereas truth-tellers did. In fact, 80 per
cent of truth tellers and 87 per cent of liars could be correctly
classified on the basis of this factor alone."
The Self: Social influence on the illusion of control
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2010/06/winners_wanted_luck.html
"The illusion of control is the tendency to believe that we have influence
over uncontrollable events. It has been well demonstrated in gamblers who
may often put down wins and losses to their skills and abilities, even on
games like roulette where the outcomes are entirely random. This new study
found that roulette players who learnt that someone else had recently 'won
big' had an increased illusion of control, expected to win more and made
more risky gambles while playing. However, this effect virtually
disappeared simply by adding that the 'big winner' had put down his
bonanza to sheer luck."
The Self: Happiness = $60,000/yr
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/04/daniel-kahneman-nobel-pri_n_601236.html
That's according to Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman
Technology in Teaching
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/technology.htm
Video
Gender and Culture: If husband is flirting, make yourself more attractive
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201006100065
Advice from Reverend Pat Robertson
Social Judgment: Change blindness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGQmdoK_ZfY
A nice twist on the famous gorilla video, from Dan Simon -- if too many of
your students have already seen the gorilla video or a variation of it,
they can still be fooled by this one.
How Do You ... ?
Ever wonder how your fellow social psych instructors handle a certain
topic or issue in their courses? Then send me your "How Do You..?"
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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