(12.10.21)

This is a reading week, no session will be held!

Please go over the presentation and the mandatory reading. If you have any questions, please email me (hadar@fss.muni.cz). We will summarize the most important info from this week's presentation, next week in class.

In this teaching unit, we will explore the following topics:

- Group behavior and Dynamics: Group polarization, Groupthink (following last week's short video and introduction)

- Selective perception + recall

- Realistic Conflict Theory, Sherif’s Robbers Cave Experiment.

- Behavioural/social scripts and their influences

- The Mass Media and its ability to shape our opinions

- The language of war, the 'pro-us' illusion.

Mandatory reading

Scripts. Psychology http://psychology.iresearchnet.com/social-psychology/control/scripts/

Janis, I. L. (2008). Groupthink. IEEE Engineering Management Review, 36(1), 36.

Sherif’s Robbers Cave Experiment => https://www.simplypsychology.org/robbers-cave.html

Further Reading

Tavris, C., & Aronson, E. (2020). Mistakes were made (but not by me): Why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions, and hurtful acts. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (partially available on google books)

Tsang, S. J. (2020). Motivated fake news perception: The impact of news sources and policy support on audiences’ assessment of news fakeness. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 1077699020952129.

Herrmann, R. K. (2017). How attachments to the nation shape beliefs about the world: A theory of motivated reasoning. International Organization, S61-S84.

Thaler, M. (2019). The “fake news” effect: An experiment on motivated reasoning and trust in news. In Technical Report. Working Paper.