[net-gold] [socialpsy-teach] TSP Newsletter - Vol. 9, No. 5
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Subject: [socialpsy-teach] TSP Newsletter - Vol. 9, No. 5
Teaching Social Psychology Newsletter
Vol. 9, No. 5
January 29, 2010
Resources for the Teaching of Social Psychology website at
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow
As I mention at the end of each Newsletter, I take requests. Questions
you have for the group, or resources you would like to find? Let me
know. Here is such a request from subscriber Nora Murphy: I have a
request for the request line. I was wondering about how others teach about
priming, particularly in their Intro classes. In the past, I have used the
example of providing the students with a list of words related to tides
(without the actual word "tide") and then having them write down what
detergent they use (after filler tasks). The example always works -
students overwhelmingly report "Tide." However, a lot of the students
refuse to acknowledge the priming effect, arguing that Tide is the most
common detergent used. I get similar reactions to other priming studies
(e.g., the Bargh et al. 1996 study on priming older adult stereotypes, and
then participants walking more slowly to the elevator). Students just
cannot seem to grasp that priming was the mechanism that caused the
effect. I'd be curious to know about how others teach this concept and
particularly about any in-class demonstrations. Good question. Please
send me (jfmueller@xxxxxxxxxx) any of your experiences or ideas or demos
on priming and I will post them in the next issue.
Class Assignments
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/assignments.htm
Discussion and Question-asking: Minutes of group meetings
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Brain-and-Cognitive-Sciences/9-70Spring-2009/Assignments/index.htm
Study groups are a central part of this OpenCourseWare social psychology
course at MIT. To encourage and assess the quality of discussion in those
groups, the follow assignment is given: "Each week, each study group is
responsible for preparing and submitting to the instructors – via email –
a brief (1-2 page) collaborative report, henceforth referred to as "study
group meeting minutes."
Activities and Exercises
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/activities.htm
Helping: Bystander intervention lesson
http://contentbuilder.merlot.org/toolkit/html/snapshot.php?id=49978700419868
Social Beliefs/Judgments: False memories and schemas
https://sbhs-sbhsd-ca.schoolloop.com/blogdocs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= m2nEM-oT0Kw&feature=related
http://web.mac.com/r.theodore/Site/
PSY_LIN_U610_files/Roediger%20&%20McDermott%20(1995).pdf
Here's a link to a nice PowerPoint presentation from subscriber Chuck
Schallhorn in which he has adapted Drew Appleby's demo on false memories.
The second link is to a video by Chuck describing how he uses the
demonstration. The original demo is based off the study by Roediger &
McDermott (1995) which was modeled after a study by Deese (1959). The
third link takes you to the Roediger and McDermott study.
Examples
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/examples.htm ;
Conflict and Peacemaking: Tragedy of the commons
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/how_bad_for_the_environment_can
Amusing example from The Onion: "How bad for the environment can throwing
away one plastic bottle be?" 30 million people wonder.
Conformity: Violating social norms
http://socialpsychologyeye.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/women-with-hairy-legs-%E2%80%93-an-oxymoron/
"The Daily Telegraph (and other media channels) reported that the actress
Mo’Nique caused quite a stir at the Golden Globe Awards, not only for
winning an award, but also for her ‘fashion faux pas’. That is, she had
hairy legs." If you can stomach it, click on a link in the above article
to see a picture.
Gender and Culture/Prejudice: Social inequalities
http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=123248
"Eight months after being raped, a 16-year-old at Khargor of Kasba upazila
in Brahmanbaria had to receive 101 lashes as 'punishment.'"
Prejudice: Dehumanizing groups
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/01/23/bauer-stray/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/26/jon-stewart-blasts-gop-ca_n_436674.html
South Carolina Lt. Governor compares parents of children on free or
reduced lunches to stray animals. First link is to an article about it.
Second link is to a Daily Show video in which Jon Stewart takes him to
task.
Online Lectures
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/lecture.htm
PowerPoint Slides: Most topics - instructor: James Shepperd
http://www.psych.ufl.edu/~shepperd/Social/PowerPoint%20Links.htm
Student Resources
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/student.htm
Writing Resources: APA-style guides
http://www.apadiv2.org/otrp/resources/resources.php?category=Research%20and%20Teaching
New APA-style guides located at the Office of Teaching Resources in
Psychology
Courses/Sites on the Web
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/sites.htm
Teaching Tips: Video lecture series
http://www.college.cengage.com/psychology/shared/guest_lecture/popup.html
A good set of video lectures on nearly 80 topics related to the teaching
of psychology
Articles
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/articles.htm
Aggression: When does your boss want to hurt you?
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~nathanaf/power_incompetence_and_aggresssion.pdf
http://www.marshall.usc.edu/news/all-articles/why-bosses-go.htm
http://tinyurl.com/ygxatr5
"Four studies demonstrated that individuals with power become aggressive
when they feel incompetent in the domain of power." First link is to the
research article; second is to a press release about it; third is to a
blog entry about it.
Aggression: Witnessing bullying can be harmful also
http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/spq-24-4-211.pdf
http://tinyurl.com/ybd6zrl
First link is to the research article; second link is to a blog entry
about it.
Attraction and Relationships: What types of faces attract gay and straight
men?
http://www.harvardscience.harvard.edu/culture-society/articles/face-it
"Gay men most attracted to most masculine faces; straight men most drawn
to most feminine."
Attraction and Relationships: Stranger says: Want to go to bed with me?
You say...
http://www.william-mckibbin.com/articles/Schutzwohl-et-al-2009.pdf
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/ugly-truth-about-one-night-stands-23934.html
Remember the classic study in which an opposite-sex stranger asked random
people after only a brief two-sentence introduction if they a) wanted to
go out, b) go back to their apartment, or c) go to bed with them? This is
a very clever followup to that study. The first link is to the research
article; second link is to a blog entry about it. Amazing what they
found.
Social Judgment: Priming of achievement + fun = ?
http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/~dalbarra/pubs/The%20Effects%20of%20Chronic%20Achievement%20Motivation.pdf
http://tinyurl.com/ye2zqoc
Fascinating study in which high or low achievement-motivation participants
were primed with high achievement words prior to completing a word-search
puzzle that was either described "as a serious test of verbal proficiency"
or as "fun." Normally, high achievement priming led high achievement
participants to work even harder and perform better than low achievement
participants. However, when the task was described as "fun," the opposite
results were found. The first link is to the research article; the second
link is to a blog entry about it.
Topic Resources
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/topics.htm
Aggression: Making psychological violence illegal?
http://tinyurl.com/yh2sjp5
"French lawmakers intend to pass a controversial bill that will ban
“psychological violence” in marital (or cohabitation) relationships."
Aggression/Prejudice: Ethnic cleansing in America?
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/banished/
"From the 1860s to the 1920s, towns across the U.S. violently expelled
African American residents. Today, these communities remain virtually all
white."
Attraction and Relationships/Genes, Gender, and Culture: Sexual infidelity
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/onlyhuman/2010/01/revisiting-green-monster.cfm
"Research has documented that most men become much more jealous about
sexual infidelity than they do about emotional infidelity. Women are the
opposite, and this is true all over the world." The prevailing theory is
an evolutionary one: "Men learned over eons to be hyper-vigilant about sex
because they can never be absolutely certain they are the father of a
child, while women are much more concerned about having a partner who is
committed to raising a family." This new research, however, suggests a
different explanation.
Conformity: Fewer calories consumed after calorie information posted in
restaurants
http://www.docuticker.com/?p=31129
Culture: Comparing countries along five cultural dimensions
http://www.geert-hofstede.com/hofstede_dimensions.php
Geert Hofstede provides an easy way to compare different countries along
his five dimensions of culture such as individualism and power distance.
H/t to subscriber Jess Hartnett.
Gender, Genes, and Culture: Do girls develop math anxiety from female
teachers?
http://tinyurl.com/yl37cf6
Not a causal study, but it raises some interesting questions. If 90% of
elementary teachers are female, and many of them are anxious or
uncomfortable with math, how might that affect young girls?
Gender, Genes, and Culture: "How objectification silences women"
http://tinyurl.com/y8vz354
"Leading a team of Israeli and US psychologists, she has shown that women
become more silent if they think that men are focusing on their bodies.
They showed that women who were asked to introduce themselves to an
anonymous male partner spent far less time talking about themselves if
they believed that their bodies were being checked out. Men had no such
problem. Nor, for that matter, did women if they thought they were being
inspected by another woman."
Persuasion/Social Judgment: "Death" warnings increase smoking?
http://tinyurl.com/ydqdfef
According to this study, for those whose self-esteem is tied to smoking,
encountering threatening messages about smoking increases the tendency to
smoke.
Prejudice: "Gay teen worried he might be Christian"
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/gay_teen_worried_he_might_be
Very amusing Onion article
Prejudice: Americans prejudiced towards Muslims, Jews
http://tinyurl.com/ye2euan
http://www.muslimwestfacts.com/mwf/125318/Religious-Perceptions-America.aspx
"A poll about Americans' views on Islam concludes that the strongest
predictor of prejudice against Muslims is whether a person holds similar
feelings about Jews." The first link is to an article about the survey.
The second link is to the survey itself.
Prejudice: Banning the full facial veil in France
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/world/europe/27france.html?hp
"A fractured panel of French legislators endorsed the idea of a ban on
full facial veils in government offices, public hospitals and mass
transit, while the Parliament remains deeply divided over the
effectiveness and constitutionality of such a law."
Prejudice: "Mexico City enacts first gay marriage law"
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/national_world&id=7193927
Mexico City "hopes to attract same-sex couples from around the world to
wed" ... but...
Prejudice: "Married Malawian gay couple face test"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/01/malawi-gay-couple-married-test
...not so much in Malawi.
Prejudice: "Italy 'to open first prison for transgender inmates'"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8455191.stm
Prejudice: In UK, call to ban race and gender info in CVs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/jan/01/job-discrimination-anonymous-cvs-report
Prejudice: Basketball league for Whites only
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/19/nba_563760.shtml
Prejudice: Ease of processing affects prejudice?
http://tinyurl.com/yzlhmf3
"The researchers said their finding showed prejudice against migrants can
partly be explained by the cognitive awkwardness of thinking about a
person who lives in one place but hails from another."
Prejudice/The Self: "Census figures challenge views of race and ethnicity"
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/us/22census.html
Psychology in the Courtroom: "The ominous power of confession"
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2010/01/the_ominous_power_of.html
This blog entry discusses an article which describes "125 proven cases of
wrongful conviction in the US justice system where the accused made a
false confession."
Social Beliefs: Be a good lie detector? Don't mimic
http://tinyurl.com/y9djrf6
Fascinating study: "So while the dozens of tricks employed in Lie To Me
can help true experts detect lies, this simple study seems to show that
simply telling interviewers not to mimic the behavior of the people they
are talking to can make them much better at detecting lies."
Social Beliefs: Confirmation bias
http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2010/01/cable_news.php
This blog entry provides a nice summary of some confirmation bias
research, including a recent one which found that global news consumers
selected the news outlet that fit their political attitudes.
Interestingly, the study found that "The longer participants had been
watching AJE (Al-Jazeera English), the less dogmatic they were in their
thinking...The reduced dogmatism applies only to the cognitive levels of
thinking, or the way in which people process new information."
Social Beliefs: U.S. still a "fearful nation"
http://wiredcampus.chronicle.com/article/Still-Fearful-After-All-These/63508/
Barry Glassner, author of The Culture of Fear, claims we are still a
fearful nation in this interesting essay, and he discusses the
consequences of that.
Social Beliefs: Processing fluency and judgment
http://tinyurl.com/yb4rmam
I have shared a number of studies recently which have found that, for
example, if instructions are in an easier-to-read font, we assume the task
will be easier to complete. The more fluently we can process information
the more favorably we respond to it. This article summarizes a lot of
that research.
Technology in Teaching
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/technology.htm
Video
Aggression: "The psychology of violence"
http://webcast.rice.edu/index.php?action=details&event=400
A lecture from subscriber David Schneider
Aggression/Gender and Culture: "Cougars" hunt young males
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,1,26600976-5006301,00.html
"A campaign that portrays single middle-aged women as cougars who prowl
bars looking for sex with young men has landed Air New Zealand in hot
water."
The Self: "The self and culture"
http://tinyurl.com/yac5thn
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