Assignments & Handouts

Powerpoint

Videos & Podcasts

Personal Space Study using Second Life virtual reality-NPR

Personal Space-The Bathroom study - was it ethical?

Attribution Biases - including blaming the victim

How Big is your office?  A classic Study in equity and fairness

Bystander Effect - what would you do? MSNBC Video

Propinquity!  That's right, propinquity!  And Reba McIntire is singing about it!

Frozen in Place - An improv group had 200 people freeze in place for five minutes in Grand Central Station. Fun stuff.

Food Court Musical - Same Improv group - this time a musical in a food court!  

Understanding: How good people turn evil - Renowned Psychologist Philip Zimbardo On his Landmark Stanford Prison Experiment, Abu Ghraib and More

The Persuaders - Frontline  How marketers and politicians figure out how to persuade us

The Vividness effect/availability heuristic - from the Daily Show - Year of the Shark

Additional Resources

Sony Wii and James Lange's theory

Monty Hall meets Cognitive dissonance

What would you do? - a video about conformity and group think (downloaded)

Breaking Social Norms video (downloaded)

Famous Enjoli commercial - gender stereotypes (downloaded)

Deinidividuation - From to Kill a Mockingbird (download)

Persuasion - Just go with the "flow" A funny bit from Penn and Teller in which they send a woman to collect signatures at an environmental rally to ban dihydrogen monoxide (H2O). Here is a link to the mock website against DHMO. Definitely worth a look if you haven't seen it. (download)

Snickers Ad - Is this an example of Tajfel's minimal groups and formation of social identity? (download)

Crayola monologues - Just for fun - a fairly silly video about stereotyping involving crayons (download)

Impression Formation - In this clip from the film Young Sherlock Holmes, a young Sherlock Holmes meets a young Dr. Watson for the first time and draws several inferences about his future companion from a few bits of information. (download)