Unit15+-+Social+Psych

=__Unit 15 - Social Psychology__=

[[file:Altruism & Helping Behavior.ppt]]
(Online discussion assignment)

"If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably."
article by Philip Meyer This is a classic article about the obedience studies of Stanley Milgram and their implications.

__Social Norms__
===Click here for the Seinfeld social norm clips (the videos cannot be embedded)===

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Food Court Musical media type="youtube" key="dkYZ6rbPU2M" height="390" width="640"

Sound of Music - Central Station Antwerp (Belgium) media type="youtube" key="7EYAUazLI9k" height="390" width="640"

No Pants Subway Ride 2009 media type="youtube" key="9La40WwO-lU" height="390" width="640"

The Bystander Effect
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Implicit Association Tests (Hidden Bias)
Click the link below to see the Scientific American video we watched in class where Alan Alda takes the IAT. []

Click the link below to go to the Teaching Tolerance website that discusses and links to the IAT from Harvard's Project Implicit. [] Or click the link below to go directly to the Project Implicit website. []

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==Philip Zimbardo - "The Lucifer Effect"== Below are several items related to Philip Zimbardo's recent book //The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil//. It looks back at his famous Stanford Prison Experiment, but then also applies what we have learned from this and other studies to the disturbing realities of real life (such as the incidents at Abu Ghraib prison).



'Lucifer Effect' Aks Why Good People Go Bad
(from NPR's "Fresh Air" program - May 1, 2007) "Best known for the landmark Stanford Prison Experiment — in which student volunteers in a mock prison transformed with startling speed into sadistic guards or emotionally broken prisoners — Philip Zimbardo has written a book on the psychology of the unspeakable. It's called //The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil//." []

Philip Zimbardo on the Daily Show
media type="custom" key="9031584" align="left" (from March 29, 2007) Psychologist Philip Zimbardo compares the Stanford Prison Experiment to Abu Ghraib.

Zimbardo on "The Colbert Report"
(from February 11, 2008) Stephen gives Philip Zimbardo a lesson on heaven, hell and Lucifer. (5:23) []

Philip Zimbardo Shows How People Become Monsters... or Heroes
Philip Zimbardo knows how easy it is for nice people to turn bad. In this talk, he shares insights and graphic unseen photos from the Abu Ghraib trials. Then he talks about the flip side: how easy it is to be a hero, and how we can rise to the challenge. (WARNING: There are some graphic images that Zimbardo uses in this talk to illustrate the horrors of Abu Ghraib. Do not watch if you are sensitive to this material.) media type="custom" key="9031614"

(Yahoo! News 4/13/11)
I just saw this news story and I thought it had some interesting connections to our discussion of gender and gender roles/norms. I think this story shows just how strongly many people react to any "violation" of expected norms. @http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110413/ts_yblog_thelookout/hot-pink-toenailed-boy-in-j-crew-ad-sparks-controversy

The David Reimer Story - Born a boy, raised a girl
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Hazing (Glenbrook North High School - Illinois)
This video provides one extreme example of the type of disturbing group behavior that unfortunately is not unique to this situation. This has a number of relevant applications to our study of social psychology, including topics like situational effects, deindividuation,conformity, the bystander effect, group polarization, and more. media type="youtube" key="b9xbP18_0B4" height="390" width="480"

Wisdom About Crowds: To model the behaviour of humans en masse, treat them as people, not molecules
(article from the Economist - 4/20/11) []