Reading Assignments

*Note: Click on the next to a reference to download a pdf of the document. Read the documents in the order they are listed.

Chapters are from the required textbook for the course:

 

September 1: history and background

Background:

Chapter 2 in Baumeister & Finkel (2010)

          Triplett, N. (1898) The dynamogenic factors in pacemaking and competition. American Journal of Psychology, 9, 507-533.

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          Le Bon, G. (1896). The crowd: A study of the popular mind. USA: Norman S. Berg. [Read the first chapter; at least skim the rest.]

Target:

          Nisbett, R. E. (1990). The anti-creativity letters. American Psychologist, 45, 1078-1082.

Choose one:

          Batson, C. D. (2005). Seven possible social-psychological wisdoms. Psychological Inquiry, 16, 152-157.

          Berscheid, E. (1992). A glance back at a quarter century of social psychology. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 63, 525-533.

          House, J. S. (1977). The three faces of social psychology. Sociometry, 40, 161-77

          Richard, F. D., Bond, C. F., Jr., & Stokes-Zoota, J. J. (2003). One hundred years of social psychology quantitatively described. Review of General Psychology, 7, 331-363.

          Swann, W. B., & Seyle, C. (2005). Personality psychology’s comeback and its emerging symbiosis with social psychology. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 155-165.

September 8: social influence and conformity

Background:

Chapter 11 in Baumeister & Finkel (2010)

          Asch, S. E. (1955). Opinions and social pressure. Scientific American, 193, 31-35.

          Milgram, S. (1963). Behavioral study of obedience. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 67, 371-378.

          Zajonc, R. B. (1965). Social facilitation. Science, 149, 269-274.

Target:

          Cialdini, R. B. (1980). Full-cycle social psychology. In L. Bickman (Ed.), Applied social psychology annual (Vol. 1, pp. 21-47). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.

Choose one:

          Cialdini, R. B., Reno, R. R., & Kallgren, C. A. (1990). A focus theory of normative conduct: Recycling the concept of norms to reduce littering in public places. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58, 1015-1026.

          Cohen, G. L. (2003). Party over policy: The dominating impact of group influence on political beliefs. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 808-822.

          Crano, W. D. (2000). Milestones in the psychological analysis of social influence. Group Dynamics, 4, 68-80

          Latané, B., Williams, K., & Harkins, S. (1979). Many hands make light the work: the causes and consequences of social loafing. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 37, 822-832.

          Maass, A., & Clark, R. D. III. (1984). Hidden impact of minorities: Fifteen years of minority influence research. Psychological Bulletin, 95, 428-450.

September 15: social cognition

Background:

Chapter 3 in Baumeister & Finkel (2010)

          Heider, F., & Simmel, M. (1944). An experimental study of apparent behavior. American Journal of Psychology, 57, 243-259..

          Tversky, A. & Kahneman, D. (1974). Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases. Science, 185, 1124-1131.

Target:

          Wegener, D. T., & Petty, R. E. (1995). Flexible correction processes in social judgment: The role of naive theories in corrections for perceived bias. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68, 36-51.

Choose one:

          Funder, D. C. (1987). Errors and mistakes: Evaluating the accuracy of social judgment. Psychological Bulletin, 101, 75-90.

          Gilbert, D. T., & Malone, P. S. (1995). The correspondence bias. Psychological Bulletin, 117, 21-38.

          Gilbert, D. T., Pelham, B. W., & Krull, D. S. (1988). On cognitive business: When person perceivers meet persons perceived. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54, 733-740.

          Kelley, H. H. (1973). The process of causal attribution. American Psychologist, 28, 107-128.

          Lau, R.R., & Russell, D. (1980). Attributions in the sports pages: A field test of some current hypotheses in attribution research. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 39, 29-38.

          Malle, B. F., Knobe, J., & Nelson, S. (2007). Actor-observer asymmetries in behavior explanations: New answers to an old question. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 491-514.

          Miller, J. G. (1984). Culture and the development of everyday social explanation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 46, 961-978.

          Ross, L., Greene, D., & House, P. (1977). The “false consensus effect”: An egocentric bias in social perception and attribution processes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 13, 279-301.

          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, 656-666.

September 22: mid-term exam

No readings

September 29: attitudes and behavior

Background:

Chapter 6 in Baumeister & Finkel (2010)

          LaPiere, R. T. (1934). Attitudes vs. actions. Social Forces, 13, 230-237.

          Festinger, L., & Carlsmith, J. M. (1959). Cognitive consequences of forced compliance. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 58, 203-210.

Target:

          Greenwald, A. G., & Banaji, M. R. (1995). Implicit social cognition: Attitudes, self-esteem, and stereotypes. Psychological Review, 102, 4-27.

Take an IAT or two at https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/takeatest.html

Choose one:

          Ajzen, I., Timko, C., & White, J. B. (1982). Self-monitoring and the attitude-behavior relation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 42, 426-435.

          Bem, D. (1965). An experimental analysis of self-persuasion. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1, 199-218.

          Eagly, A. H. (1992). Uneven progress: Social psychology and the study of attitudes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 63, 693-710.

          Fazio, R. H., Sanbonmatsu, D. M., Powell, M. C., & Kardes, F. R. (1986). On the automatic activation of attitudes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50, 229-238.

          Sherif, M. (1935). A study of some social factors in perception: Chapter 4. Archives of Psychology, 27, 1-60. Available online here.

          Heider, F. (1946). Attitudes and cognitive organization. Journal of Psychology, 21, 107-112.

          Nosek, B. A. (2007). Implicit-explicit relations. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16, 65-69.

          Petty, R. E., & Cacioppo, J. T. (1984). The effects of involvement on responses to argument quantity and quality: Central and peripheral routes to persuasion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 46, 69-81.

October 6: self and identity

Background:

Chapter 5 in Baumeister & Finkel (2010)

          Markus, H., & Kunda, Z. (1986). Stability and malleability of the self-concept. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51, 858-866.

Target:

Discussion: Does self-esteem matter? You will be assigned one of the following:

          Baumeister, R. F., Campbell, J. D., Krueger, J. I., & Vohs, K. D. (2003). Does high self-esteem cause better performance, interpersonal success, happiness, or healthier life-styles? Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 4(Whole No. 1), 1-44.

          Swann, W. B., Jr., Chang-Schneider, C., & McClarty, K. L. (2007). Do people’s self-views matter? Self-concept and self-esteem in everyday life. American Psychologist, 62, 84-94.

Read both of these, available in one document:

          Krueger, J. I., Vohs, K. D., & Baumeister, R. F. (2008). Is the allure of self-esteem a mirage after all? [Comment]. American Psychologist, 63, 64-65.

          Swann, W. B., Jr., Chang-Schneider, C., & McClarty, K. L. (2008). Yes, cavalier attitudes can have pernicious consequences [Comment]. American Psychologist, 63, 65-66.

Choose one:

          Baumeister, R.F., Bratslavsky, E., Muraven, M., & Tice, D.M. (1998). Ego depletion: Is the active self a limited resource? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1252-1265.

          Markus, H. (1977). Self-schemata and processing information about the self. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 35, 63-78.

          Swann, W. B., Jr., Griffin, J. J., Predmore, S., & Gaines, B. (1987). The cognitive-affective crossfire: When self-consistency confronts self-enhancement. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 881-889.

October 13: personality and individual differences

Background:

Chapter 21 in Baumeister & Finkel (2010)

          Nisbett, R. E., & Wilson, T. D. (1977). Telling more than we can know: Verbal reports on mental processes. Psychological Review, 84, 231-259.

Target:

          Jost, J. T., Glaser, J., Kruglanski, A. W., & Sulloway, F. (2003). Political conservatism as motivated social cognition. Psychological Bulletin, 129, 339-375.

Choose one:

          Leary, M. R., & Hoyle, R. H. (2009). Situations, dispositions, and the study of social behavior. In M. R. Leary & R. H. Hoyle (Eds.), Handbook of individual differences in social behavior (pp. 3-11). New York: Guilford Press.

          Mischel, W., Shoda, Y., & Mendoza-Denton, R. (2002). Situation-behavior profiles as a locus of consistency in personality. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 50-54.

October 20: social exchange and prosocial behavior

Background:

Chapter 8 in Baumeister & Finkel (2010)

Target:

          Cialdini, R. B., Brown, S. L., Lewis, B. P., Luce, C., & Neuberg, S. L. (1997). Reinterpreting the empathy-altruism relationship: When one into one equals oneness Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 481-494.

          Batson, C. D., Sagar, K., Garst, E., Kang, M., Rubchinsky, K., & Dawson, K. (1997). Is empathy-induced helping due to self-other merging? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 495-509.

Choose one:

          Darley, J. M., & Batson, C. D. (1973). "From Jerusalem to Jericho:" A study of situational and dispositional variables in helping behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 27, 100-108.

          Houlden, P., LaTour. S., Walker, L., & Thibaut, J. (1978). Preferences for modes of dispute resolution as a function of process and decision control. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 14, 13-30.

          Isen, A. M., & Levin, P. F. (1972). Effects of feeling good on helping: Cookies and kindness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 21, 384-388.

          Morgan, W. R., & Sawyer, J. (1979). Equality, equity, and procedural justice in social exchange. Social Psychology Quarterly, 42, 71-75.

October 27: antisocial behavior

Background:

Chapter 9 in Baumeister & Finkel (2010)

          Darley, J. M., & Latané, B. (1968). Bystander intervention in emergencies: Diffusion of responsibility. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 8, 377-383.

Target:

          Bushman, B. J., & Baumeister, R. F. (1998). Threatened egotism, narcissism, self-esteem, and direct and displaced aggression. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 219-229.

Choose one:

          Bushman, B. J., & Anderson, C. A. (2002). Violent video games and hostile expectations: A test of the general aggression model. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 1679-1686.

          Bushman, B. J., & Anderson, C. A. (2009). Comfortably numb: Desensitizing effects of violent media on helping others. Psychological Science, 20, 273-277.

          Cohen, D., Nisbett, R. E., Bowdlec, B. F., & Schwarzb, N. (1996). Insult, aggression, and the Southern culture of honor: An "experimental ethnography." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 945-960.

November 3 : prejudice and stereotyping

Background:

Chapter 10 in Baumeister & Finkel (2010)

          Dion, K., Berscheid, E., & Walster, E. (1972). What is beautiful is good. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 24, 285-290.

Target:

          Devine, P. G. (1989). Stereotypes and prejudice: Their automatic and controlled components. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 56, 5-18.

Choose one:

          Aronson, E., & Bridgeman, D. (1979). Jigsaw groups and the desegregated classroom: In pursuit of common goals. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 5, 438-446.

          Duckitt, J. Wagner, C., du Plessis, I., & Birum, I. (2002). The psychological bases of ideology and prejudice: Testing a dual process model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 75-93.

          Katz, D., & Braly, K. (1933). Racial stereotypes of one hundred college students. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 28, 280-290.

          Macrae, C. N., Bodenhausen, G. V., Milne, A. B., & Jetten, J. (1994). Out of mind but back in sight: Stereotypes on the rebound. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, 808-817.

          Payne, B. K. (2006). Weapon bias: Split-second decisions and unintended stereotyping. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15, 287-291.

          Steele, C. M., & Aronson, J. (1995). Stereotype threat and the intellectual test-performance of African-Americans. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 797-811.

November 10: attraction and rejection

Background:

Chapter 12 in Baumeister & Finkel (2010)

          Byrne, D. (1961). Interpersonal attraction and attitude similarity. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 62, 713-715.

          Zadro, L., Williams, K. D., & Richardson, R. (2004). How low can you go? Ostracism by a computer is sufficient to lower self-reported levels of belonging, control, self-esteem, and meaningful existence. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 560-567.

Target:

          Leary, M. R., Tambor, E. S., Terdal, S. K., & Downs, D. L. (1995). Self-esteem as an interpersonal monitor: The sociometer hypothesis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68, 518-530.

Choose one:

          Berscheid, E., Dion, K., Walster, E., & Walster, W. G. (1971). Physical attractiveness and dating choice: A test of the matching hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 7, 173-189.

          Buss, D., & Schmitt, D. P. (1993). Sexual strategies theory: An evolutionary perspective on human mating. Psychological Review, 100, 204-232.

          Dutton, D. G., & Aron, A. P. (1974). Some evidence for heightened sexual attraction under conditions of high anxiety. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 30, 510-517.

          MacDonald, G., & Leary, M. R. (2005). Why does social exclusion hurt? The relationship between social and physical pain. Psychological Bulletin, 131, 202-223.

November 17: close relationships

Background:

Chapter 13 in Baumeister & Finkel (2010)

Target:

          Gottman, J. M., Coan, J., Carrere, S., & Swanson, C. (1998).  Predicting marital happiness and stability from newlywed interactions.  Journal of Marriage and the Family, 60, 5-22.

Choose one:

          Baumeister, R. F., Wotman, S. R., & Stillwell, A. M. (1993). Unrequited love: On heartbreak, anger, guilt, scriptlessness, and humiliation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 64, 377-394.

          Drigotas, S. M., Rusbult, C. E., Wieselquist, J., & Whitton, S.W. (1999). Close partner as sculptor of the ideal self: Behavioral affirmation and the Michelangelo phenomenon. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 293-323.

          Hazan, C. & Shaver, P. (1987) Romantic love conceptualized as an attachment process. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 511-524.

          Murray, S. L., Holmes, J. G., & Griffin, D. W. (1996). The self-fulfilling nature of positive illusions in romantic relationships: Love is not blind but prescient. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71, 1155-1180.

          Rusbult, C. E. (1980). Commitment and satisfaction in romantic associations: A test of the investment model. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 16, 172-186.

December 1: intergroup processes

Background:

Chapter 15 in Baumeister & Finkel (2010)

          Sherif, M. (1956). Experiments in group conflict. Scientific American, 195, 54-58.

          Tajfel, H. (1970). Experiments in intergroup discrimination. Scientific American, 223, 96-102.

Target:

          Pettigrew, T. F., & Tropp, L. R. (2006). A meta-analytic test of intergroup contact theory. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 751-783.

Choose one:

          Ahlfinger, N. R. & Esser, J. K. (2001). Testing the groupthink model: Effects of promotional leadership and conformity predisposition. Social Behavior and Personality, 29, 31-41.

          Lewin, K., Lippitt, R., & White, R. K. (1939). Patterns of aggressive behavior in experimentally created "social climates." Journal of Social Psychology, 10, 271-299.

          Perdue, C. W., Dovidio, J. F., Gurtman, M. B., & Tyler, R. B. (1990). Us and them: Social categorization and the process of intergroup bias. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 59, 475-486.

          Sanna, L. J., & Parks, C. D. (1997). Group research trends in social and organizational psychology: Whatever happened to intragroup research? Psychological Science, 8, 261-267.

December 9

review manuscript due by 5:00