[socialpsy-teach] TSP Newsletter - Vol. 17, No. 5

[David P. Dillard]

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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 18:13:06 +0000
From: Jon F Mueller <[hidden email]>
To: "[hidden email]" <[hidden email]>
Subject: [socialpsy-teach] TSP Newsletter - Vol.  17, No. 5


Teaching Social Psychology Newsletter

 

Vol. 17, No. 5


January 30, 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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the e-mail newsletter accompanying the
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Activities and Exercises

 

 

Attitudes & Behavior:  Cognitive Dissonance

http://highered.mheducation.com/sites/0078035295/student_view0/online_learning_center
0/chapter4/interactivities.html

An online, interactive activity – good practice for your students outside of class –
but it can also be turned into an in-class activity

 

General:  Review activity for social psychology

http://teachinghighschoolpsychology.blogspot.com/2018/01/social-psych-review-activity
.html#sthash.kNucHVSY.dpbs

 

General:  Why sleep deprivation also hurts our social processes

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/teaching-current-directions-in-psycholo
gical-science-44#social

 

Group Influence:  Thinking about groups

http://highered.mheducation.com/sites/0078035295/student_view0/online_learning_center
0/chapter8/interactivities.html

An online, interactive activity

 

Persuasion: The tools of compliance

http://highered.mheducation.com/sites/0078035295/student_view0/online_learning_center
0/chapter7/interactivities.html

An online, interactive activity

 

 

 

          

 

Articles and Books

           

 

The Self: Handbook of Well-being

http://www.nobascholar.com/books/1

A freely-available, new book through Noba Scholar

 

           

 

 

Examples

 

 

Attraction & Relationships:  Physical proximity (propinquity)

http://www.scienceofrelationships.com/home/2018/1/24/why-do-co-stars-fall-in-love.htm
l

Why do co-stars fall in love, this blog entry asks? 

 

Prejudice:  Overt racism from police official

http://www.wdrb.com/story/37305301/prospect-assistant-police-chief-told-lmpd-recruit-
to-shoot-black-people

Very disturbing

 

Prejudice:  Institutional racism

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/15/opinion/leonhardt-trump-racist.html?_r
=0

As some media outlets are tracking the lies of President Trump, others are tracking
evidence of racism, past and present.

 

         

      

 

Topic Resources

 

 

Aggression: “Australia launches anti-bullying campaign after former child model
commits suicide”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/australia-amy-everett-akubra_us_5a56cb3de4b0a300
f905be4c

 

Aggression: More problems with the concept of microaggressions?

https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/01/12/new-findings-pose-more-problems-for-the-embattle
d-concept-of-the-microaggression/

Can they only be directed at minorities/victims or can those in the majority/superior
groups also feel them?  Is it still a “microaggression”?

 

Aggression:  The case of Aziz Ansari

https://thinkprogress.org/aziz-ansari-consent-5da97aea675c/

This is one of many essays about responses to an accusation of inappropriate sexual
behavior from comedian/actor/writer Aziz Ansari and how it informs the ongoing
conversation on the topic.

 

Attraction & Relationships:  Ahh, the name game

http://www.scienceofrelationships.com/home/2018/1/15/explaining-royal-love-prince-har
ry-and-the-allure-of-implici.html

This blog entry looks at implicit egotism in our desire for people (and things) that
share the initials of our own names.  Even Prince Harry.

 

Attraction & Relationships:  “The IQ score people say is most attractive”

http://www.spring.org.uk/2018/01/iq-attractive.php

120, according to this research.  I’ve got to shave off a few points.  Off to watch
The Bachelor! No wait, even better, the State of the Union address is tonight.

 

Attraction & Relationships: “People with low self-esteem really do have less
responsive partners”

https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/01/25/its-not-all-in-their-heads-people-with-low-self-
esteem-really-do-have-less-responsive-partners/

 

Gender & Culture: Tehran women no longer to be punished for non-Islamic dress

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tehran-women-dress-code_us_5a450ae9e4b0b0e5a7a50
adb?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

 

Persuasion:  Is the backfire effect real?

https://mindhacks.com/2018/01/03/the-backfire-effect-is-elusive/

This blog entry discusses a large replication effort that failed to find evidence of
the backfire effect, the phenomenon of a person’s false belief strengthening rather
than weakening in the face of correcting information.

 

Persuasion: Can openness to other viewpoints be increased?

https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/01/23/something-we-could-use-a-little-more-of-studies-
link-intellectual-humility-with-openness-to-other-viewpoints/#more-33080

Perhaps by increasing a person’s intellectual humility, according to this research

 

Persuasion:  Associating beer brands with college cues

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/college-branding-makes-beer-more-s
alient-to-underage-students.html

Can branding beers with the colors of your school, or other cues, make you feel more
positive about, and safe with, that brand?

 

Prejudice:  Role models for coming out

http://spsp.org/news-center/blog/coming-out-vis-a-vis-symbols

Good, brief essay about the value of role models to help teens deal with sexual
identity

 

Prejudice: “The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement”

http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/jacs/index.html

A large digital collection of articles, maps, photographs, audio, video, and more from
The Bancroft Library

 

Prejudice:  Are we less tolerant of mistakes by minorities?

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/muslim-women-advertising_us_5a677d38e4b0dc592a0d
4f0b

Here’s an example from advertising.

 

Prejudice:  Racial misappropriation

http://www.everydaysociologyblog.com/2018/01/the-malfunction-heard-around-the-world-c
ultural-appropriation-white-privilege-and-misogynoir.html

Interesting essay on the topic, and timely for the upcoming Super Bowl

 

Prejudice:  Poverty and segregation continues in U.S. schools

https://www.apnews.com/b9913a89da624d17878ba734b95a6d4f?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_s
ource=Twitter&utm_medium=AP_Politics

 

Social Judgment: Acquiescing to our intuition

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/obsonline/intuition-may-ov
erpower-probability-in-decision-making.html

What if you recognize that your intuition about a decision is faulty, do you adopt the
more rational choice or do you acquiesce to your intuition?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Technology in Teaching

 

 

Images

 

Persuasion: Vintage ads

http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/

Lots of print ads for a variety of products from the 1800’s on!

 

 

 

Video

 

 

Aggression/Gender and Culture:  Difficult dinner conversations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=260&v=evWiz6WRbCA

Amusing Saturday Night Live skit about trying to talk about sexual abuse/harassment
stories among friends

 

 

 

 

 

         

 

         

         

 

 

       

 

         

 

 

        

 

        

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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How Do You ... ?

 

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it here. If I get some answers I will post them in the following issue.

 

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