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Social Psychology  - Psy 259

Course Textbook  Although we will be using the Brief Edition of this text, this link is for the full version textbook website.   This text (the Brief Edition, ISBN 13:9780495602651) is REQUIRED for this course and we will be using almost the entire text.  Three possible options for buying/renting this text: the BCC Bookstore, at CengageBrain or at CourseSmart.


Course Syllabus



Interesting Links

Consequences of Dispositional Attributions - Video with Elliot Aronson

How to Read a Social Psychology Research Article - This is useful for the Annotated Bibliography.

An example of an 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.

Cognitive Dissonance - A video with Leon Festinger

Cognitive Dissonance examples on the Daily Show

Video on Implicit Association Test.

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
 

Zimbardo's Prison Experiment

Abu Ghraib and Zimbardo

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 demonstrations and your descriptions reflect Attribution theory.
 

Here is a new version of Milgram's experiment.

BBC Clip of Milgram with orignial subject

Jonestown video by History Channel

Elevator and Conformity

Solomon Asch's Conformity Study

Prisoner's Dilemma - Should you cooperate or compete?

Another Prisoner's Dilemma

Discovering Psychology - Constructing Social Reality:  This video contains Blue Eye/Brown Eye classroom experiment.

A longer video of the Blue Eye/Brown Eye classroom.

APA Formatting

APA Manual - APA Style

Purdue Owl - APA Format

A Guide for Psychology Undergraduate from University of Washington

Mastering APA Style powerpoint presentation

Example of a Reference page

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