LEADERSHIP AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES SPRING 2011 LDST 102 Professor George R. Goethals, Jepson Hall Room 235 287-6354; [email protected] Introduction The goal of this course is to familiarize you with the kinds of issues explored in the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, primarily from the perspective of the social sciences. Together we study some fundamental conceptions of the human condition and social interaction. Considerable emphasis is placed on examples of leaders and leadership. We read and discuss relevant works from psychology and related works from other disciplines, endeavoring to understand leaders and leadership in several domains, including politics, exploration, and social change. A calendar listing topics and reading for each day follows. The assigned books for the course are: The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander; The Evolution of Desire, by David Buss; Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell; One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey; The Selling of the President, 1968 by Joe McGinniss; Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution by James McPherson; and Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. Most other assigned articles and chapters are available on e-reserve. The e-reserve number for each such reading is noted in parentheses at the end of the assignment. A few other articles will be handed out in class. Course requirements 1. Members of the class are expected to attend each class and to participate in discussion. 2. There are two exams on the reading and class discussions, the first on Monday, February 14 and the second on Monday, March 28. 3. A ten-page paper is due on Friday, April 29. It should discuss The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition or One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest or both in terms of what we have studied in the first two sections of the course. 4. Optional, extra credit “quote quizzes” will be scheduled later in the semester, testing your memory of quotes from William Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King, Jr.2 Your course grade is determined by weighting the requirements above as follows: class participation, 25; each exam, 25; term paper, 25. If you take the optional quote quizzes, there are two possible Shakespeare quotes weighted 10, three possible Lincoln quotes weighted 5, and a King quote weighted 5. Grades on the quote quizzes will only be averaged into your grade only if they raise it. You may take any number of quizzes that you wish. Only the best 25 points from quote quizzes will be used toward raising your grade. Class Schedule and Readings Monday, January 10 Introduction Wednesday, January 12 Freud’s Model of the Psyche Freud, S. (1933) “The Super Ego, The Ego, and the Id.” From New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. New York: W.W. Norton. (ER29) Allport, G.W. (1961) “Mechanisms of Defense.” From Pattern and Growth in Personality. New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston. (ER6) Monday, January 17 Little Hans and Moral Development Brown, R. (1965). Social Psychology, New York: Free Press. Chapter 8, The Acquisition of Morality, pp. 350-381. (ER1) Wednesday, January 19 Moral Development and Self-Control Baumeister, R. F., Vohs, K.D., & Tice, D.M. (2007). The Strength Model of Self-Control. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16, 351-355. (ER28)3 Kohlberg, L. (1977) Moral Development: A Review of a Theory, pp. 53-59. Skinner, B.F. (1971). Beyond Freedom and Dignity. (New York: Knopf). Chapter 1, A Technology of Behavior, pp. 1-23; Chapter 2, Freedom, pp. 24-40. (ER3) Monday, January 24 The Self in Social Interaction James, W. (1892). Psychology: Briefer Course. (New York: Henry Holt). Chapter XII, The Self, pp. 176-195. (ER9) Wilson, T.D. & Dunn, E.W. (2004). Self-knowledge: Its Limits, Value and Potential for Improvement. Annual Review of Psychology, 55, 493-518. (ER24) Pennebaker, J.W. (1989). Confession, Inhibition, and Disease. In L. Berkowitz, (ed.). Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (San Diego: Academic Press). Volume 22, 211-244. (ER12) Wednesday, January 26 Cognitive Dissonance Theory Festinger, L. Cognitive Dissonance. Scientific American, 107 (Scientific American Offprint 472) (ER11) Freedman, J.L. (1965). Long-Term Behavioral Effects of Cognitive Dissonance. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1, 145-155. (ER18) Lepper, M.R., Greene, D., & Nisbett, R.E. (1973). Undermining Children’s Intrinsic Interest with Extrinsic Reward: A Test of the “Overjustification” Hypothesis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 28, 129-137. (ER31) Monday, January 31 Outliers Gladwell, M. (2008). Outliers: The Story of Success. (New York: Little, Brown). Introduction, The Roseto Mystery, pp. 3-11; Chapter 1, The Matthew Effect, pp. 15-34; Chapter 2, The 10,000-Hour Rule, pp. 35-68.4 Bouchard, T.J., Lykken, D.T., McGue, M., Segal, N.L., & Tellegen, A. (1990). Sources of Human Psychological Differences: The Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart. Science, 250, 223-228. (ER27) Frey, M.C., & Detterman, D.K. (2004). Scholastic Assessment or g? The Relationship Between the Scholastic Assessment Test and General Cognitive Ability. Psychological Science, 15, 373-378. (ER23) Wednesday, February 2 Nature, Nurture, and Intelligence Gladwell, M. (2008). Outliers: The Story of Success. (New York: Little, Brown). Chapter 3, The Trouble With Geniuses, Part 1, pp. 69-90; Chapter 4, TheTrouble With Geniuses, Part 2, pp. 91-115. Steele, C. (1997). A Threat in the Air. How Stereotypes Shape Intellectual Identity and Performance. American Psychologist, 52, 613-629. (ER30) Zajonc, R.B. Family Configuration and Intelligence. Science, 192, 227-236. (ER15) Monday, February 7 Self-Fulfilling Prophecies Rosenthal, R. & Jacobson, L.F. (1968). Teacher Expectations for the Disadvantaged. Scientific American, 218, no. 4. Word, C.O., Zanna, M.P., & Cooper, J. (1974). Nonverbal Mediation of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies in Interracial Interaction. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 10, 109-120. (ER19) Snyder, M., Tanke, E.D., & Berscheid, E. (1977). Social Perception and Interpersonal Behavior: On the Self-Fulfilling Nature of Social Stereotypes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 35, No. 9. (ER25) Wednesday, February