PSX_512 Human Nature: Key Studies in Psychology

LECTURE 6: Social perception and self-perception

COMPULSORY (please watch before taking the quiz):
A class divided: A lesson by Jane Elliott (elementary school teacher) on stereotyping
How dividing people into socially unequal groups based on physical attributes can affect their feelings and treatment of each other
 

OPTIONAL (illustrative videos to supplement the lecture slides):
The original cognitive dissonance experiment by Leon Festinger

 

The fundamental attribution error
 The suspension bridge experiment: Misattribution of arousal

 The Barnum (Forer) effect: A demonstration
  The Halo Effect: A demonstration
 
Please watch Class Divided before taking the quiz.
QUIZ 6: Social cognition



SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS: 
LECTURE 6: SELF-PERCEPTION AND SOCIAL PERCEPTION
Fischhof: Hindsight bias experiment
Dutton & Aron: Misattribution of arousal
Festinger & Carlsmith: Experiment on forced compliance (dissonance)
Aronson & Mills: Experiment on cognitive dissonance (group initiation)
Jones & Harris: Attribution of attitudes (the fundamental attribution error confound)
Nisbett & Wilson: The Halo Effect (experiment)
Ross et al.: False consensus effect (experiments)
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