Course RequirementsOutline and ReadingsSept. 27 The Classic ExperimentsTaylor, S. E., & Brown, J. D. (1988). Illusion and well-beinOct. 25 Social NeurosciencePsychology 2500: Social Psychology Fall, 2007Dan Wegner 1470 WJH, 496-2596Course Requirements Each assignment counts 25% of the course grade: 1. A mid-semester take-home essay exam will be distributed Oct. 25 and due Nov. 1. You will be asked to answer 4 of 6 questions, limiting your answers to 2 double-spaced pages for each. 2. A take-home essay final exam of the same format will be distributed Jan. 14 and will be due at 5:00 PM on Jan. 19, to be submitted electronically. 3. For each class session, there will be main readings for the class as a whole. Your assignment is to do the main readings and then turn in comments on them by the day on which the topic is covered. The comments (1 page maximum) should always include a few sentences summarizing all the readings, and then also your response to the readings. This response could include, for instance, the most interesting or important idea you found in the readings or had about the topic, an example of something you have experienced that is relevant to the topic, or a design for a study. You may take 2 “get out of comments free” days without penalty. 4. In addition, beginning Oct. 4, on each of 4 occasions you will select one of the presentation readings to prepare for the class. You should prepare a one-page paper summarizing that reading for the class, and give a short presentation in class to overview the reading and relate it to the main readings. Outline and Readings Sept. 20 Organizational Meeting Sept. 27 The Classic Experiments Main Readings: Asch, S. E. (1955). Opinions and social pressure. Scientific American, 19, 31-35. Darley, J. M., & Latané, B. (1968). Bystander intervention in emergencies: Diffusion of responsibility. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 8, 377-383. Festinger, L., & Carlsmith, J. M. (1959). Cognitive consequences of forced compliance. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 58, 203-210. 1Milgram, S. (1963). Behavioral study of obedience. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 67, 371-378. Schachter, S., & Singer, J. E. (1962). Cognitive, social, and physiological determinants of emotional state. Psychological Review, 69, 379-399. Background: Aronson, E., Wilson, T. D., & Brewer, M. B. (1998). Experimentation in social psychology. In D. T. Gilbert, S. T. Fiske, & G. Lindzey (Eds.), Handbook of social psychology (Vol. 1, pp. 99-142). Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill. Cleland, C. E. (2001). Methodological and epistemic differences between historical science and experimental science. Philosophy of Science, 69, 474-496. Miller, A. G., Gordon, A. K., & Buddie, A. M. (1999). Accounting for evil and cruelty: Is to explain to condone? Personality and Social Psychology Review, 3, 254-268. Orne, M. T. (1962). On the social psychology of the psychological experiment: With particular reference to demand characteristics and their implications. American Psychologist, 17, 776-783. Ross, L., & Nisbett, R. E. (1992). The person and the situation. New York: McGraw-Hill. (Chapter 2: The power of the situation) Wegner, D. M., & Gilbert, D. T. (2000). Social psychology--the science of human experience. In H. Bless & J. P. Forgas (Eds.), The message within: Subjective experience in social cognition and behavior (pp. 1-9). Philadelphia, PA: Psychology Press. Oct. 4 Attitudes and Emotion Main Readings: Zajonc, R. B. (1980). Feeling and thinking: Preferences need no inferences. American Psychologist, 35, 151-175. Ekman, P. (1984). Expression and the nature of emotion. In K. Scherer & P. Ekman (Eds)., Approaches to emotion (pp. 319-343). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Haidt, J. (2001). The emotional dog and its rational tail: A social intuitionist approach to moral judgment. Psychological Review, 108, 814-834 Presentations: Cacioppo, J. T., Priester, J. R., & Berntson, G. G. (1993). Rudimentary determinants of attitudes, II: Arm flexion and extension have differential effects on attitudes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 5-17. Wheatley, T., & Haidt, J. (2005). Hypnotic disgust makes moral judgments more severe. Psychological Science, 16, 780-784. Keltner, D. (1995). Signs of appeasement: Evidence for the distinct displays of embarrassment, amusement, and shame. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68, 441-454. 2Bushman, B. J. (2005). Violence and sex in television programs do not sell products in advertisements. Psychological Science, 16, 702-708. Background: Wilson, T. D., & Gilbert, D. T. (2003). Affective forecasting. In M. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology, Vol. 35 (pp. 345-411). New York: Elsevier. Eagly, A. H. & Chaiken, S. (1998). Attitude structure and function. In D. T. Gilbert, S. T. Fiske, & G. Lindzey (Eds.), Handbook of social psychology (Vol. 1, pp. 269-322). Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill. Niedenthal, P. M., Barsalou, L. W., Winkielman, P., Krauth-Gruber-S., & Ric, F. (2005). Embodiment in attitudes, social perception, and emotion. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 9, 184-211. Olson, J. M., & Stone, J. (2005). The influence of behavior on attitudes. In D. Albarracin, B. Johnson, & M. Zanna (Eds), Handbook of Attitudes (pp. 223-271). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Wicklund, R. A., & Brehm, J. W. (1976). Perspectives on cognitive dissonance. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Oct. 11 Self-Understanding Main Readings: Dijksterhuis, A., & Nordgren, L. F. (2006). A theory of unconscious thought. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 1, 95-109. Markus, H. R., & Kitayama, S. (1991). Culture and the self: Implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation. Psychological Review, 98, 224-253. Nisbett, R. E., & Wilson, T. D. (1977). Telling more than we can know: Verbal reports on mental processes. Psychological Review, 84, 231-259. Presentations: Gallup, G. G., Jr. (1977). Self-recognition in primates: A comparative approach to the bidirectional properties of consciousness. American Psychologist, 32, 329-338. Schwarz, N., Bless, H., Strack, F., Klumpp, G., Rittenauer-Schatka, H., & Simons, A. (1991). Ease of retrieval as information: Another look at the availability heuristic. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61, 195-202. Pelham, B. W., Mirenberg, M. C., & Jones, J. T. (2002). Susie sells seashells by the seashore: Implicit egotism