Ch. 1

Ch. 1: Is it Psychology or common sense?
Ch. 17: Doing social psychology research

• topic resources: methods
• 100 years of social psych
• "correlation" cartoon
• Historical figures in social psychology
  

Correlation coefficients
Type of correlation?
Ch. 2: Connect the Dots

• Lyrics to "More"
• Despondex
• Discovering Psychology
• Choice affects preference for odors

p. 140-145, 222-225

Mere categorization and ...

• Assignment 1

Types of research methods

• Lacking control increases illusory perceptions
• Woody Allen on delusions
• Reactance vs. Rationalization ; article
  

Illusion and well-being...

• Questions

56-75, 98-100, 532-536

Ch. 14: Creating cop-outs
Ch. 17: Putting common sense...The social self

• topic resources: the self

Dread risk, September 11...

• Assignment 2

p. 102-112

• topic resources: social judgments
• origin of the self-serving bias

Evaluating videotaped confessions

• Assignment 3

p. 80-90

Does watching smoking...

• Assignment 4

Ch. 5: Shortcuts and Schemas
Ch. 18: Whom do you trust?
Ch. 14: Are you a chameleon?
Ch. 17: Putting common sense...(Perceiving persons)
Ch. 17: Putting common sense...(Perceiving groups)

Judgment Biases

p. 332-339, 342-350

Weapon Bias...

• Assignment 5

• Vividness effect: Summer of the shark
• Racial profiling
• Doodling can help
• Overgeneralization?
• Don't do it!

Research Summary Paper due

pp. 90-98

Automaticity of being

Deliberation-without-attention effect

Smells like clean spirit...

• Assignment 6

• family resemblance - confirmation bias
• Test your weapon bias
• Humor and Stereotypes
• Cognitive bias song

Ch. 17: How could you not...
Implicit Association Test

• Subliminal smells
• How long to form a habit
• Car crash consciousness
• Academy award winners
• unpopular names
• choice blindness
• Community: inattentional blindness
• priming of self and God
• detecting sexual orientation
  • more research

Ch. 4

The last chocolate study

Ch. 17: Putting common sense...(attitudes)

• topic resources: attitudes
• embassy suites commercial
• attitude/behavior consistency

Persuasion / Demonstrations

Ch. 7

Ch. 5

Ch. 17: I'll figure it out...

• topic resources: persuasion
• "A Class Divided"
• Cialdini's six principles ; image

Ch. 6

The constructive, destructive, and reconstructive power...

• Assignment 7

Ch. 18: How far would you go?
Ch. 18: Putting common sense..conformity

• The science of evil
• Strip-search case
• The art of social change

Ch. 8

• topic resources: genes and culture
• topic resources: conformity
• National Social Norms Institute
• Asch's study without confederates
• The children save Atticus

Group Influence

Ch. 18: Putting common sense..group processes

Group Conflict / Demonstrations

• topic resources: group influence

Ch. 18: Does self-interest pay?

• topic resources: group conflict
• conflict in the middle east
  

Prejudice / Demonstrations

• Crazed Palestinian gunman stereotype
• topic resources: prejudice

Stereotype threat effects on ...

• Assignment 10

• Stereotyping by blood type
• Let them eat harmony
• Implicit Association Test (IAT)
• The IAT as suicide predictor
• Juan Williams' firing (transcript)
  • double standard
  • commentary
    • more
  • alternative view
    

Ch. 11

Beauty is in the mind...

• topic resources: attraction
• reducing Islamophobia and homophobia
• Reducing racial bias

Selective versus unselective...

• Assignment 11
  

Ch. 17: Putting common sense...(Attraction)
Ch. 18: How do you say...

Helping / Demonstrations

• topic resources: helping
• donors choose

Ch. 18: Maybe I'll help...
Ch. 18: Putting common sense..helping

• The costs of benefits ...
• Aiding the fallen
• crotch shot

Ch. 18: What's aggression?
Ch. 18: Are men really more..
Ch. 18: Putting common sense..aggression

• sensing the future?

Aggression / Demonstrations

Assignment 12

Influences of serotonin...