Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Chemii - Centralny System Uwierzytelniania
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Social Psychology 2500-EN_O_32
Wykład (WYK) Semestr zimowy 2017/18

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Liczba godzin: 30
Limit miejsc: 40
Zakres tematów: (tylko po angielsku)

List of topics/classes

1. Introduction

Key questions of social psychology (Who?When?Why?). Social psychology

and other related disciplines (sociology, cognitive science, personality

psychology, clinical psychology), applications of social psychology,

scientific method in social psychology, correlational studies vs.

experimental studies, sociological roots of social psychology (Znaniecki,

Durkheim, Marx), European roots of social psychology (“Gestalt”, Lewin,

Frankfurt School, Tajfel, Heider, Moscovici), contribution of classical

thinkers (Lewin, Festinger, Allport) and their students (Bandura,

Pettigrew, Greenwald).

2. Social cognition

Social psychology and cognitive psychology. Example: Stroop test in social

psychological research. Priming (superluminal vs. subliminal). Higgins,

Bargh. Affect and emotion (Ekman). Goal proming (Ferguson & Bargh,

Kruglanski et al., Rasinski et al.). Subliminal priming (Murphy & Zajonc).

Debate over subliminal persuasion. Neural basis for subliminal affective

priming (LeDoux). Impression formation (Todorov, Zebrowitz). Embodied

social cognition.

3. Social cognition (II)

Cognitive closure and naïve epistemology (Kruglanski). Heuristics,

cognitive schemata. Biases: confirmation bias (Snyder & Swann), hindsight

bias (Fischhoff). Just world beliefs (Lerner). Self-fulfilling prophecies in

economy, sociology (Thomas, Merton) and psychology. Rosenhan hospital

experiments. Pygmalion effect. Stereotype threat (Steele, Aronson,

current studies).

4. Decisions and attitudes

Decision making – Tversky and Kahneman. Trust and mistrust. Prisoners

dilemma. Iterated dilemmas (Axelrod), intergroup trust games (Yamagishi

& Kiyonari). Attitudes: definition (ABC). Function of attitudes.

Measurement issues (Thurstone, Likert). Bogus pipeline, implicit vs.

explicit attitudes. Physiological methods (EMG, EEG, fMRI), reaction

times, IAT. Cognitive dissonance (Festinger). Post-decision dissonance.

Dissonance and implicit attitudes (Gawronski & Strack). Different

explanations of dissonance (Bem, Fazio). Affect-behavior link (LaPiere).

Theory of planned behavior (Fishbein & Ajzen).

5. Attributions, influence and helping.

Internal vs. external. Theories of attribution (Jones, Kelley, Hilton).

Conversation-based models. Fundamental attribution error. Conformity

(Asch and contemporary experiments). Social influence (foot in the door,

door in the face and other effects). Minority influence (Moscovici).

Obedience (Milgram). Aggression (Dollard & Miller). Bystander effect and

helping (Latane, Darley, Nadler).

6. Groups and conflict

Groups and collective. Social facilitation. Deindividuation (Zimbardo).

Groupthing. Group tasks (additive, conjuctive, disjunctive). Brainstorming:

facts and myths. Intergroup conflict. Ethnic conflicts. Types of conflict

(Deutsch). Intergroup differentiation (Brewer, Tajfel). Conflict theories

(realistic group conflict, relative deprivation, ethnocentrism). Need-based

model of conflict. Cultural mistrust.

7. Theories of social identity

Social identity theory, optimal discinctiveness theory, social dominance

theory, self-uncertainty reduction theory, terror management theory,

group-level control restoration theory, system justification theory. Social

identity vs. social identification. From social categorization to social

identity. How to deal with negative social identities. Depersonalization

(Turner). SDO & RWA and their consequences (Duckitt model).

Nationalism vs. patriotism (Mummendey, Hopkins, Brewer).

8. Stereotyping and prejudice

Classical approaches (Lippman, Allport). Cognitive consequences of

stereotyping (Hamilton, Snyder, Rothbart). Measuring stereotype

(Katz&Braly, Brigham, Esses&Zanna). Intergroup attributions (Hewstone,

Pettigrew). Language and stereotyping (linguistic intergroup bias, Semin &

Fiedler; Maass). Outgroup homogeneity effect. Stereotype content (Fiske

& Glick). Prejudice – it’s sources and nature. Theories of anti-Semitism.

9. Intergroup emotions and dehumanization

Intergroup appraisals (Smith, Alexander). Bias map (Glick & Fiske) –

dehumanizing the cold and incompetent. Intergroup anxiety (Stephan)

and social identity threat (Branscombe). Siege mentality In intergroup

relations (Bar-Tal). Hate crimes and xenophobia. Group-focussed enmity.

Dehumanization (Haslam) and infrahumanization (Leyens). Consequences

of dehumanization.

10. Tolerance

Contact hypothesis. Early studies (Allport, Sheriff). Cooperative learning

and jigsaw classroom. Mediators and moderators of contact. Computer

simulations and real-life examples. Personalization (Brewer and Miller).

Common ingroup identity model vs. ingroup projection model. Salient

categories model (Hewstone).

11. Social psychology: history and future.

Perceived collective continuity and its consequences (Sani). Moral

emotions (shame, guilt, regret). Collective guilt. Attributions of the

history. Psychology of reconciliation. Forgiveness. Collective

representations of the past (Liu). History and the environment (Lewicka).

Temporal construal (Trope, Lieberman). Social psychology and current

problems: New forms of prejudice: modern and symbolic racism; aversive

racism (Dovidio, Devine), climatic issues, human-animal interactions,

Internet and new identities.

Metody dydaktyczne: (tylko po angielsku)

Lecture with some classroom discussion.

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