Social Psychology  - Psy 259

Course Textbook  This link is for the full version textbook website.  You can buy ichapters of the brief edition from iChapters.

Course Syllabus

Course Outline

Interesting Links

• How to Read a Social Psychology Research Article - This is useful for the Annotated Bibliography.
  
  
• How to spot a fake smile.  Make sure you let me know how you did.  The first time I tried it, I did not do too well.
  
  
• Can you recognize emotions?  Try this one out.  Click on "Play Media File".  You do not need to fill out any of the information in the boxes

• Various online scales.  Another instructor at a different school has designed five interactive instructional learning modules on self-related topics such as self-monitoring, optimism, self-esteem, and gender identity.  Try them out, they are very interesting.

• Implicit Association Test.  Let me know what you think.
  
  
• Try the shock generator from Milgram's experiment
  
  
• Listen to Philip Zimbardo on the Lucifer Effect and the Prison Experiment
  
  
• Here is a link to illustrate Heuristics
  
  
• A Daily Show video showing the Availability Heuristic
  
  
• Without reading the descriptions, write what you see happening in each of these demonstrations.  These demonstration and your descriptions reflect Attribution theory.
   
• Here is a new version of Milgram's experiment.