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LEADERSHIP AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES FALL 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: Readings about The Social Animal, edited by Joshua and Elliot Aronson; 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. Several assigned articles appear in Readings about The Social Animal, as noted below. 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. Short (1,000 word) papers commenting on the reading are due on Friday, September 9, and Friday, October 14, at 5:00 PM 3. There are two exams on the reading and class discussions, the first on Tuesday, September 27 and the second on Tuesday, November 1. 4. A ten-page paper is due on Friday, December 9, at 5:00 PM. 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.2 6. 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. Your course grade is determined by weighting the requirements above as follows: class participation, 20; each exam, 20; each short paper, 10; term paper, 20. If you take the optional quote quizzes, there are two possible Shakespeare quotes weighted 10, two possible Lincoln quotes weighted 5, and a King quote weighted 5. Grades on the quote quizzes will only be averaged into your grade if they raise it. You may take any number of quizzes that you wish. Only the best 20 points from quote quizzes will be used toward raising your grade. Schedules for the quote quizzes will be announced in class. Class Schedule and Readings Tuesday, August 23 Introduction Thursday, August 25 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. (ER28) Allport, G.W. (1961) “Mechanisms of Defense.” From Pattern and Growth in Personality. New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston. (ER6) Tuesday, August 30 Little Hans and Moral Development Brown, R. (1965). Social Psychology, New York: Free Press. Chapter 8, The Acquisition of Morality, pp. 350-381. (ER1) Thursday, September 1 Moral Development and Self-Control3 Baumeister, R. F., Vohs, K.D., & Tice, D.M. (2007). The Strength Model of Self-Control. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16, 351-355. (ER27) Kohlberg, L. (1977) Moral Development: A Review of a Theory, pp. 53-59. (ER20) 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) Tuesday, September 6 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. (2004). Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious. In Readings about the Social Animal, pp. 206-216. 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) Thursday, September 8 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. (ER19) Freedman, J.L. & Fraser, S. C. (1966). Compliance Without Pressure: The Foot-in-the-Door Technique. In Readings about the Social Animal, pp. 253.264. Friday, September 9, First Short Paper Due Tuesday, September 134 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. 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. (ER26) Dweck, C.S. (2002). Self-Theories of Intelligence. In Readings about the Social Animal, pp. 217-231. Thursday, September 15 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. Cohen, G.L., Garcia, J., Apfel, N., & Master, A. (2006). A Self-Affirmation Intervention to Reduce the Racial Achievement Gap. In Readings about the Social Animal, pp. 304-315. Zajonc, R.B. Family Configuration and Intelligence. Science, 192, 227-236. (ER15) Tuesday, September 20 Self-Fulfilling Prophecies Rosenthal, R. & Jacobson, L.F. (1968). Teacher Expectations for the Disadvantaged. Scientific American, 218, no. 4. (ER29) Word, C.O., Zanna, M.P., & Cooper, J. (1974). Nonverbal Mediation of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies in Interracial Interaction. Journal of Experimental


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