Click here to check out the social psychology network - it includes all things social psychological plus general career information.

Click here to read Madeline Rose's suggestions for applying to graduate programs in social work.

Click here to access the "RadioLab" podcast on deception that I mentioned in class.

Research Methods

• Link to U.S. map with rates of depression
  
• Moghaddam, F.M. (2006).  The Staircase to Terrorism: A Psychological Explanation.  American Psychologist, 60, 161-169.

Social cognition

• If you would like to try the Kruglanski need for closure scale, please click here.
• Click here a "hot hand" demonstration.
• Corry, B. (September 4, 2010). Forget what you know about good study habits. New York Times.

Self

• If you would like to see where various countries stand on Hofstede's cultural dimensions, please click here.
• Wilson, E.O. (April 2, 2012). Biologist E.O. Wilson on why humans, like ants, need a tribe. Newsweek.
• Temple, J. (February 26, 2012). Jury's out on Zamzee, other forms of gamification. San Francisco Chronicle.

Self-justification

• Burkeman, O. (October 21, 2012). Terror Management Theory says we should take the Halloween more seriously. Slate.com.

Stress and coping

• Lewin, T. (January 26, 2011). Record levels of stress found in college freshman. New York Times.

Attitudes

• Weil, E. (April 19, 2013). Happiness, Inc. New York Times.

Conformity

• Kaufman, C. (January 31, 2009). Utilities turn their customers green with envy. New York Times.
• Rosenberg, T. (March 27, 2013). The destructive influence of imaginary peers. New York Times.
• Somers, L.H. (February 2, 2013). The boys at the back. New York Times.

Stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination

• Are we born racist? Blog by Rudy Mendoza-Denton (U.C. Berkeley)
• Lots (and lots) of information about "stereotype threat".
  
• Jonsson, P. (August 6, 2013). Racial Bias and "stand your ground' laws: what the data show. Christian Science Monitor.

Group processes

• NPR RadioLab discussion of social dilemmas
  New York Times story about the origins of waterboarding (CIA decision-making could be viewed as a form of groupthink)
• Osherow, N. Making Sense of the Nonsensical: An Analysis of Jonestown

Aggression

• NPR story about cathartic anger

Attraction, Close Relationships

• Helmuth, L. (September 6, 2012). New study is good news for women who wantmen who cook and clean. Slate. com

Altruism

• On the Media story (March 27, 2009) about Kitty Genovese and what really happened
  U.C. Berkeley Center for the Greater Good
  de Steno, D. (July 5, 2013). The morality of meditation. New York Times.
  

Heather Smith, Ph.D.
Stevenson 3089
664-2587
smithh@sonoma.edu

Course Assignments:
Course Project 1
Course Project 2
Course Project 3
Course Project 4
Implicit prejudice reflection assignment