Course Schedule - Stereotyping and Prejudice

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March 31 Introduction

**Readings in bold are required**

Resources for Social Psychology

Video: Asian-American identity

April 2 Conscious vs. Unconscious Processing

 

Ego depletion: Is the active self a limited resource?

Glucose and self-control

Stroop test

Improving working memory?

Deliberation-without-attention effect

"The unbearable automaticity of being" (pp. 462-466)

"Think different:..."

A theory of unconscious thought

On the goal dependency of unconscious thought

"Imperceptibly off-center goalkeepers..."




April 7 Formation of Stereotypes

The psychology of prejudice (pp. 1-13)

"The unbearable automaticity of being" (466-476)

"You wear me out: The vicarious depletion of self-control"

Is Obama American?

April 9 Formation of Stereotypes

"Children's illusory correlations..."

Take at least two IAT tests for today

The bias finders (on the IAT tests)

Stereotyping based on voice

Measuring the immeasurable...

Implicit-explicit relations

Video: The doll test




April 14 Formation / Maintenance of Stereotypes

(P) pp. 14-27

"Stereotypes and the confirmability of trait concepts" (Jen and Lauren)

Singlism

Think before you speak

"That's so gay" in the UK

April 16
Effects on Behavior
"Weapon bias..." (Justine and Shannon)

"Heterosocial perceptual organization..."

Names and expectations

"Looking deathworthy..."

"Stereotypes focus defensive projection"

Age stereotypes predict cardiovascular events




April 21 From Preference to Dislike

"Of two minds..." (Sandy)

A two-dimensional model of attitudes to characterize prejudice

"Sources of implicit attitudes"

"They all look the same to me (unless they're angry)"

 

April 23 Assessment Day

"The emotional side of prejudice..."

Hiring discrimination against the obese

"The influence of facial feedback on race bias"

Own-race bias




April 28 From Preference to Dislike

Spreading attitude effect (Allison Shostrom and Katie)

"Children's biased evaluations..."

Intergroup sensitivity effect

"Intergroup threat and outgroup attitudes..."

"never let gay people anywhere near my children"

April 30
Midterm Exam

I am collecting the take-home portion of the midterm at the beginning of class. Then we will take the in-class portion.

"How could Obama be bad for racial equality"

The phantom menace

 




May 5
From Preference to Dislike

"...avoidance-focus for interracial interactions"

"Citing intolerance, obese people...."

Social identity and musical preferences

"Need more babies!"

O'Reilly's propaganda techniques

Amazing "blackdar"

Same-sex marriage threats

Gathering Storm

Anti-immigrant rhetoric

"Amid swine flue outbreak, racism goes viral"

May 7 Effects on Behavior

"On interpreting stereotype threat as accounting..."

"Knowing is half the battle..."

The Obama effect

Extra credit




May 12 HONORS DAY: NO CLASS

 

May 14 From Dislike to Hatred

"The swimsuit becomes us all..." (Josh and Nicole)

Just-world beliefs and 9/11 (Bridget and Carey)

India's cultural shift

American exceptionalism

Race bias and conception risk

Moving the "terrorists"

 

Other task




May 19 From Dislike to Hatred

Racial Profiling:

The social psychology of stigma

Stigma as ego depletion

Dehumanizing the lowest of the low

anti-gay, racist e-mails from military recruiter

Gays in the military

Assault on gay America

Gay-bashing attack

Interracial/Same-sex Marriage

audio:John Amaechi/Tim Hardaway

May 21
Targets of Prejudice

 

"Mispredicting affective and behavioral..." (Dan)

Stigmatizing of Jews

Dobson and Iran

Whom do you hate?

Snickers ad




May 26 Targets of Prejudice

"Stigma effects of revealing a mental illness history..." (Lexi and Molly)

"Rethinking the link between categorization and prejudice..."

"Color blindness..."

All-inclusive multiculturalism

This week in race blog

Weight bias

May 28 Reducing Prejudice and Discrimination

"Differential effects..."

"Reducing intergroup prejudice..." (Nadia and Wes)

Prejudice reduction: What works? A review...

Pronouncing Sotomayor correctly




June 2 Reducing Prejudice and Discrimination

Research/Analysis Paper Due

 

Intergroup contact theory (skim)

"The contact hypothesis revisited..."

"Interracial roommate relationships..." (Allison and Amanda)

"Stereotype activation and control..."

The fragility of intergroup relations

June 4 Reducing Prejudice and Discrimination

"Reducing the racial achievement gap..."

"Identity, belonging, and achievement..."

"Nature and nurture in own-race face processing"

"On the self-regulation of implicit and explicit prejudice..."

"The power of social psychological interventions"

"tolerance for gay rights"

immigrants and leprosy




June 9
Final Exam
10:00-12:00