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Psychology
5202 Class Schedule: Topics
and Readings
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Fridays |
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MLK Day |
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1/20 Ballot Measure 9 video |
1/23 History of attitude research
Brown, R., “The authoritarian personality and the organization of attitudes,” in Jost & Sidanius (2004), 39-68. Altemeyer, R., “The other ‘authoritarian personality’”, in Jost & Sidanius (2004), 85-107. |
1/25 History of attitude research
Sears, D.O. (1986). College sophomores in the laboratory: Influences of a narrow data base on social psychology’s view of human nature. JPSP, 51(3), 515-530. |
1/27 Nature of attitudes
EC 1-21, S, 1-33. |
1/30 Nature of attitudes
EC, 389-426.
Chen, M., Bargh, J.A. (1999). Consequences of automatic evaluation: Immediate behavioral predispositions to approach or avoid the stimulus. PSPB, 25(2), 215-224.
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2/1 Attitude Measurement
EC, 23-51 |
2/3 Attitude Measurement
Ballet Measure 9 in-class video
S, 34-63.
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2/6 Attitude measurement
EC, 51-64 |
2/8 Attitude measurement
EC, 64-87
(Extra credit essay #1 due) |
2/10 Attitude measurement
Hofmann, et al (2005). A meta-analysis on the correlation between the IAT and explicit self-report measures. PSPB, 31(10), 1369-1385.
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2/13
Intra-attitudinal structure EC, 89-133 |
2/15
Intra-attitudinal structure
EC, 133-154 |
2/17 Attitudes and information processing,
EC, 589-608
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2/20 Attitudes and information processing
Lord, C., Ross, L., Lepper, M. (1979). Biased assimilation and attitude polarization: The effects of prior theories on subsequently considered evidence. JPSP, 37(11), 2098-2109. |
2/22 Attitude-Behavior Relationship
EC, 155-168 |
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2/24 Attitude-Behavior Relationship, EC, 155-168
Paper #1 due |
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2/27 Attitude-Behavior Relationship
EC, 168-176 |
3/1
Attitude-Behavior Relationship
EC, 177-193 |
3/3
Attitude-Behavior Relationship
EC, 193-202 |
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3/6
Attitude-Behavior Relationship
EC, 202-218 |
3/8 Attitude-Behavior Relationship
Holland, R.W. et al (2002). On the nature of attitude-behavior relations: The strong guide, the weak follow. EJSP, 32, 869-876. |
3/10
Exam #1, N391 |
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3/13-3/17: SPRING BREAK |
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3/20
Scared Straight: Ten Years Later
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3/22 Discussion of Scared Straight and Overview of Part 2
(Extra credit essay #2 due)
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3/24 Message learning
EC, 257-280; EC, 427-455. |
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3/27 Message Learning
Jemmott, J.B.III. et al. (2005). HIV/STD risk reduction interventions for African American and Latino adolescent girls at an inner-city adolescent medicine clinic: A randomized controlled trial. APAM, 159, 440-449; Jemmott, J.B. III, et al. (1998). Abstinence and safer sex: A randomized control trial of HIV sexual risk reduction interventions for young African American adolescents, JAMA, 279, 1529-1536. |
3/29 Message Learning
(Guest Lecturer)
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3/31 Consistency Theories
EC, 455-479; EC, 499-557 (Ch. 11). |
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4/3 Consistency Theories
Aronson, E. et al. (1991). Overcoming denial and increasing the intention to use condoms through the induction of hypocrisy. AJPH, 81(12), 1636-1638.
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4/5 Functional Approaches
EC, 479-498. |
4/7 Functional Approaches |
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4/10 Attribution and Social Judgment Approaches
EC, 351-388. |
4/12 Cognitive Approaches
EC, 280-297. |
4/14 Dual Process Models
EC, 305-325
1-page Final Paper proposals due |
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4/17 Dual Process Models
EC, 326-349. |
4/19 Dual Process Models |
4/21 Stereotyping
S, Chs. 3 & 4 |
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4/24 Stereotyping
S, Chs. 5 & 6 |
4/26 Stereotyping
S, Chs. 7 & 8 |
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4/28 Stereotyping
S, Ch. 10 & 15 |
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5/1 Stereotyping
Tropp, L.R., Pettigrew, T.F. (2005). Relationship between intergroup contact and prejudice among minority and majority status groups. Psychological Science, 16(12) , 951-957; Van Laar, C. et al (2005). The effect of university roommate contact on ethnic attitudes and behavior. JESP, 41, 329-345. |
5/3 Resistance and persuasion,
EC 559-566, 568-580, 580-589; 627-663 |
5/5 Future Directions
EC, 665-696. |
Note. EC = reading assignment drawn from the Eagly & Chaiken text, The psychology of attitudes. S = reading assignment drawn from the Schneider text, The psychology of stereotyping.
Final Papers Due No Later than Monday, May 8 by 5pm. Hard copies should be left in Professor Borgida’s 2nd floor Elliott Hall mailbox, or they can be sent to Borgida as email Word attachments (be sure to copy the TA, Corrie Hunt).
Exam #2: Friday, May 12, 8:00am – 10:00am, N391 Elliott Hall.
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