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a) One mid-term examination (essay, open book), on Thursday, March 14.
b) One final examination, take-home format (essay).
c) One short term paper. Due date: Dean's date, Tuesday, May 14, 4:30 in 107 Wallace Hall.
d) Precept participation.
e) Reading from purchased text plus packet purchased from Pequod Copy Center.
BASIC TEXT (AT U-STORE)
S.E. Taylor, L.A. Peplau and D.O. Sears,
Social Psychology (Prentice Hall),
2001; it is abbreviated "TPS" on the syllabus following.
Week 1 (February 5 & 7): Levels of Analysis: Structure, Culture and Personality
1) TPS, Preface, and Chapter 1.
2) Cunningham, "Barbie Doll Culture," pp. 48-51 (reading packet)
3)Andersen and Taylor, "Culture," pp. 59-71 (reading packet).
Week 2 (February 12 & 14): Basic Theories and Methods
1) TPS, review Chapter 1; read Chapter 2; skim Chapter 14.
2) Selection, "What is the Nature of Man," pp. 1-34 (reading packet).
3) Sacks, "To See and Not See," pp. 59-73 (reading packet).
Week 3 (February 19 & 21): Basic Theories and Methods (continued)
1) TPS, Chapters 3 and 4.
2) Selection, "How Do People Perceive and Organize Their Social Environment," pp. 35-51 (reading packet).
3) L.B. Rubin, "The Approach-Avoidance Dance: Men, Women, and Intimacy," pp. 152-156 (reading packet).
4) Curran, "Why Investors Make the Wrong Choices," pp. 63-68 (reading packet).
Week 4 (February 26& 28): Attitudes: Definition and Measurement
1) TPS, Chapter 5.
2) Zimbardo, "The Experiment as a Source of Information," and "Techniques of Attitude Measurement," pp. 197-220 (reading packet).
Week 5 (March 5 & 7): Attitudes: Attitude and Behavior Change
1) Review Chapter 5, TPS.
2) Rosenblatt, "How Do Tobacco Executives Live With Themselves?" (reading packet)
3) Osherow, "Making Sense of the Nonsensical: An Analysis of Jonestown," pp. 68ff (reading packet).
Week 6 (MARCH 12): WEEK FOR REVIEW AND MID-TERM EXAMINATION (on MARCH 14)
Week 7 (March 26 & 28): Interpersonal Attraction
1) TPS, Chapters 8 and 9.
2) Selection by Kerlinger, "Sociometry," pp. 556-563 (reading packet).
3) Dutton and Aron, "Some Evidence for Heightened Sexual Attraction Under Conditions of High Anxiety," pp. 510ff (reading packet).
Week 8 (April 2 & 4): Social Influence: Deviance and Conformity; Ethics and Experimentation
1) TPS, Chapters 7 and 8.
2) Selections from the Milgram Studies(S. Milgram, "Obedience to Authority," pp. 1-72.) (reading packet). Also selection by Colman, pp. 81-108 (reading packet).
3) Selection by H. Taylor, on separated twins, pp. 75-111 (reading packet), and selection on "Nature vs. Nurture," by Colman, pp. 15-49 (reading packet).
4) H. Taylor, "Intelligence," pp. 941-949 (reading packet).
Week 9 (April 9 & 11): Small Group Dynamics (I)
1) TPS, Chapter 10.
2) Toobin, "The Marcia Clark Verdict," pp. 58-71 (reading packet).
3) R. Jerome, "Suspect Confessions," pp. 28-31 (reading packet).
Week 10 (April 16 & 18): Small Group Dynamics (II)
1) TPS, review Chapter 10; read Chapter 12.
2) Darley and Batson, "From Jerusalem to Jericho," pp. 37ff (reading packet).
Week 11 (April 23 & 25): Prejudice, Racism, and Sexism, and Stereotyping
1) TPS, read Chapters 6 and 11, and go back and review Chapter 2.
2)Selection by Andersen and Taylor, "Race and Ethnicity," pp. 313-347 (reading packet).
3) Selection by Jones, "Prejudice and Racism," pp. 114-167 (reading packet).
4) Pettigrew "The Ultimate Attribution Error," (reading packet).
5) R.B. Moore, "Racist Stereotyping in the English Language," pp. 317-329 (reading packet).
6) Omi and Winant, "Racial Formation," pp. 1-69 (reading packet).
Week 12 (April 30): Social Psychology and Public Policy
1) Chapters 14 and 15.
2) Steele and Aronson, "Stereotype Vulnerability and African-American Intellectual Performance," pp. 409ff (reading packet).
Week 12 (May 2): Synthesis: Core Issues in the Study of Attitudes, Social Structure, and Interpersonal Behavior.
No new reading assignments.
Following is a list of sources which
will be of use as a start for term paper topics and also for precept
assignments. These sources are not now on reserve, but a select
number of them may be placed on reserve if the need arises. In
the main, the following topics represent areas of recent research
interest, and areas which we have found are of particular interest
to students in courses like this one. Each of the following topics
are covered to a greater or lesser degree in the lectures.
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Romantic
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Ethics in research; and deception in social psychological
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1. Labeling theory of
deviance
a. D.L. Rosenhan, "On Being Sane in Insane Places," Science, Vol. 179 (January 19, 1973), pp. 250-258.
b. K.T. Erikson, Wayward Puritans (Wiley, 1966).
c. C. Haney et. al.,
"Interpersonal
Dynamics in Simulated Prison," International Journal of
Criminology and Penology, Vol. 1, 1973, pp. 52ff.; in Aronson.
2. Risky shift and
polarization
a. M. Wallach et. al., "Group Influence on Individual Risk-Taking," in R.J. Ofshe, Interpersonal Behavior in Small Groups (1973), pp. 340 ff.
b. J. Blascovich et. al., "Blackjack and the Risky Shift," Sociometry, Vol. 36 (March 1973), pp. 42 ff.
c. TPS, assigned
above.
3. Gender differences
in
interpersonal
behavior
a. Article on "Sexual Script for First Date," S. Rose and I.H. Frieze, Gender and Society, Vol. 3 (1989), pp. 258ff.
b. D. Tannen, You Just Don't
Understand: Women and Men in Conversation (Morrow, 1990).
4. Proxemics and
interpersonal space
a. N.J. Russo and R. Sommer, "Invasions of Personal Space," in R.J. Ofshe, Interpersonal Behavior in Small Groups (1973), pp. 276 ff.
b. E.T. Hall, The Hidden Dimension (1966); cf. also S. Taylor, Ch. 16.
c. H.W. Smith, "Territorial
Spacing on a Beach Revisited: A Cross-National Exploration,"
Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 44 (June
1981), pp. 132 ff.
5. The Milgram
experiments
a. Milgram, assigned above.
b. A.M. Colman (1987), pp. 81-108, assigned above as required.
c. J. Martin et. al., "Obedience Under Conditions Demanding Self-Immolation," Human Relations, Vol. 29 (April 1976), pp. 345 ff.
d. C.L. Sheridan and R.G. King, "Obedience to Authority with an Authentic Victim," APA Proceedings, 1973 (copy from Prof. Taylor) (The "Puppy Study").
e. Fireman, Gamson, Rytina and Taylor,
"Encounters with Unjust Authority," 1979, copy from
Prof. Taylor.
6. Impression
management
(self-presentation)
a. E.Goffman, The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life (Doubleday, 1959), Chap.
1and/or 6.
b. D. Albas and C. Albas, "Aces and Bombers: The Post-Exam Impression Management
Strategies of Students," Symbolic
Interaction, Vol. 11 (1988), pp. 289-302.
7. Coalition
formation
a. W.E. Vinacke and A. Arkoff, "An Experimental Study of Coalitions in the Triad," in R.J. Ofshe, Interpersonal Behavior in Small Groups (1973), pp. 726 ff.
b. T. Caplow, Two Against One (Prentice Hall, 1968).
c. P.V. Crosbie and V. Kullberg,
"Minimum Resource or Balance in Coalition Formation,"
Sociometry, Vol. 36 (December 1973), pp. 476 ff.
8. Analysis of plays
(and movies;
stories; etc.) with graph (and network) theory
a. R.G. Stanton, "'A Midsummer Night's Dream': A Structural Study," Psychological Reports, Vol. 20 (1967), pp. 657-658.
b. H.F. Taylor, Balance in Small
Groups (Van Nostrand Reinhold), Ch. 3.
9. Prejudice and
racism
in Interpersonal interaction
a. Kluegel, J.R., "Trends in Whites Explanations of the Black-White Gap in Socio-economic
Status," American Sociological Review, Vol. 55(1990), pp. 512ff.
b. J. Jones, "Racism: What It Is and How Does It Work" (1997), ms. from Prof. Taylor.
c. H. Schuman, C. Steeh and L. Bobo, Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations (1985).
d. D. Ugwuegbu, "Racial and Evidential Factors in Juror Attribution of Legal Responsibility," Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 15 (1979), pp. 133-146. [cf., the trial of O.J. Simpson!]
10. Nonverbal
communications
a. TPS, covers nonverbal communication in several places.
b. R. Rosenthal et. al., "Body Talk and Tone of Voice: The Language Without Words," Psychology Today, Vol. 8, No. 4 (September 1974), pp. 64 ff.
c. B. Schwartz et. al., "Dominance Cues in Nonverbal Behavior," Social Psychology Quarterly, 45 (June 1982), pp. 114-120.
d. J. T. Wood, Gendered Lives: Communication, Gender and Culture (Wadsworth, 1994);
pick a chapter.
e. See D. Tannen above, under Gender
Differences.
11. Bystander intervention
a. J.M. Darley and B. Latane, "Bystander Intervention in Emergencies: Diffusion of Responsibility," in R.J. Ofshe, Interpersonal Behavior in Small Groups (1973), pp. 64 ff.
b. B. Latane and J. Dabbs, "Sex, Group Size and Helping in Three Cities," Sociometry, Vol. 38 (June 1975), pp. 180 ff.
c. T.L. Huston et. al., "Bystander Intervention Into Crime: A Study Based on Naturally-Occurring Episodes," Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 44 (March 1981), pp. 14 ff.
d. TPS, selected places in Chapter 11.
e. A selection on September 11, 2001 and
The World Trade Center attack.
12.
"Groupthink"
a. I.L. Janis, Victims of Groupthink
(Houghton Mifflin, 1972); see also second (1983) edition, with
appendix on Watergate.
b. J.K. Esser and J.S. Lindoerfer,
"Groupthink and the Sapce Shuttle Challenger Accident,"
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 1989; also G.
Moorehead et al., (1991), "Group Decision Fiascos Continue: Space
Shuttle Challenger adn a Revised Groupthink Framework."
Human Relations, vol. 44, pp. 539-550.
c. Worchel, pp. 430ff, assigned
above.
13. Cults
a. "Making Sense of the Nonsensical:
An Analysis of Jonestown," pp. 68ff. in Aronson.
b. See the magazine Society,
Vol. 15 (May-June 1978), an entire special issue on cults. See
especially I. Doress and J.N. Porter, "Kids in Cults,"
pp. 69 ff; and A.D. Shupe and D.G. Bromley, "Witches, Moonies,
and Evil," pp. 75 ff.
c. L. Festinger et. al.,
When Prophecy Fails, 1956, on a "doomsday cult".
14. Biases and
heuristics in perception and inference
a. J.J. Curran, "Why Investors
Make the Wrong Choices," Fortune Magazine (Fall 1987),
pp. 63-68. (Note: written before October, 1987, "Black
Monday"!). Assigned above.
b. TPS, Chapter 2, especially pp.
42-51.
c. M.D. Pugh, "Contributory
Fault and Rape Convictions: Loglinear Models for Blaming the
Victims,"
Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 46 (September 1983),
pp. 233-242.
d. D. Kahneman, et. al., Judgment
Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases (1982).
15. Misattribution
a. S. Schachter and J.E. Singer,
"Cognitive, Social, and Physiological Determinants of Emotional
States," Psychological Review, Vol. 69 (September,
1962), pp. 379-399.
b. To be asssigned.
16. Violence and media
aggression
a. TPS, Chapter 13, esp. pp. 402 ff.
b. "The Impact of Mass Media Violence [prizefights] on U.S. Homicides," ASR, pp. 132ff. in Aronson.
c. "The Facilitation of Aggression
by Aggression: Evidence Against The Catharsis Hypothesis,"
pp. 305ff. in Aronson.
17. Romantic
relationships
a. C.T. Hill, et. al., "Break-ups Before Marriage: The End of 103 Affairs," Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 32, No. 1 (1976), pp. 147-168.
b. D. Reed and M.S. Weinberg, "Premarital Coitus: Developing and Established Sexual Scripts," Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 47 (June, 1984), pp. 129-138.
c. "The Search for the Romantic
Partner: Effects of Self-Esteem and Physical Attractiveness on
Romantic Behaviors, pp. 477ff. in Aronson.
d. Lillian B. Rubin, "The Approach-Avoidance
Dance: Men, Women, and Intimacy, assigned above.
Taylor.
18. Ethics in research;
and deception
in social psychological research
a. M. Hunt, "Research Through Deception," New York Times Magazine (September 12, 1982), pp. 66 ff.
b. "Problems of Ethics in Research," Appendix (pp. 193 ff) to Milgram's book.
c. A.M. Colman, Facts, Fallacies and Frauds in Psychology (1987), pp. 81-108, assigned above as required reading.
d. L. Christensen, "Deception
in Socialpsychological Research: When Is Its Use Justified?"
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (December, 1988),
pp. 664ff.
19. Violence against
women; date
rape
a. "Predictors of Naturalistic Sexual Aggession," pp. 344ff. in Aronson.
b. TBS, Chapter 11.
c. N.M. Malamuth and L. M. Brown, "Sexually Aggressive Men's Perceptions of Women's
Communiations," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 67 (1994), pp. 699-
712.
20. Juries
a. M. Hunt, "Putting Juries on the Couch," New York Times Magazine (November 28, 1982), pp. 70 ff.
b. C. Nemeth, "Social Psychology in the Courtroom," in L. Berkowitz (ed.), A Survey of Social Psychology (New York: Holt, 1980), pp. 443-463.
c. R. Brown, "Jury Size and Decision Rule," in R. Brown, 1986, Social Psychology: The Second Edition (New York: Free Press).
d. J. Toobin, "The Marcia
Clark Verdict" (1996), assigned above.
e. J. Cooper, et. al., "Complex Scientific
Testimony: How Do Jurors Make Decisions?" Law and Human Behavior 20
(1996), pp. 379-394.
21. Social networks and
the
"small
world" phenomenon
a. S. Milgram, "The Small World Problem," Psychology Today, Vol. 1 (May 1967), pp. 61-67.
b. J. Travers and S. Milgram, "An Experimental Study of the Small World Problem," Sociometry, Vol. 32 (December 1969), pp. 425-443 (Reprinted in Leinhardt, 1977).
c. J.S. Kleinfeld, "Could It Be A Big World After All? The 'Six Degrees of Separation' Myth," 2001: http://www.uaf.edu/northern/big_world.html
d. M. Granovetter, "The Strength of Weak Ties," in Leinhardt, 1977.
e. H. Taylor, "The Structure
of a National Black Leadership Network: Preliminary Findings"
(1992), copy from Professor Taylor.
22. IQ: nature or
nurture
or both?
a. H.F. Taylor, The IQ Game, especially Chs. 1-3 and 4; also H.F. Taylor, "Intelligence," Encyclopedia of Sociology (1992), in packet, assigned above.
b. L. Kamin, The Science and Politics of IQ (1974), Chs. 1-4.
c. A.M. Colman, Facts, Fallacies and Frauds in Psychology (1987), Chs. 1-3.
d. R. Herrnstein and C. Murray, The Bell Curve (1994), Introduction plus Chapters 1, 2 and 13.
e. Review Symposium of The Bell Curve by R. Hauser, H.F. Taylor, and T. Duster, Contemporary Sociology (March, 1995), pp. 149-161; copy from Professor Taylor.
f. C. Steele and J. Aronson,
"Stereotype
Vulnerability and African-American Intellectual Performance,"1995,
pp. 409ff. in Aronson; assigned above; also C. Heale, "A Thareat In
the Air:" American Psychologist (June, 1997), pp. 613-629.
23. Social psychology's
methodology
a. D.O. Sears, "College Sophomores in the Laboratory: Influences of a Narrow Database," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 51 (1986), pp. 515-520.
b. E.J. Webb, et. al., Unobtrusive Measures (1966).
24. Interpersonal
games: Prisoner's
Dilemma and Nash Equilibrium
a. G.P. Knight and C. Chao, "Cooperative, Competitive, and Individualistic Social Values Among Eight and Twelve Year Old Siblings, Friends, and Acquaintances," Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 17(1991), pp. 201ff.
b. Reading selection on Nash Equilibrium, from Professor Taylor.
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