1. General Psychology PSYC 200 Social Psychology

2. study of interpersonal behavior relate to one another influence each other think about each other ordinary or extraordinary Definition

3. the power of the situation complements the study of personality Overarching Theme

4. Milgram’s obedience studies (1960s) strong authority figure teacher/learner paradigm no actual shock was used 65% went to top level digging deeper many different variations many different results ethics Does this mean we are all evil?

5. Milgram’s Obedience Studies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W147ybOdgpE

6. With Openly Rebellious Confederates w/ Fully Obedient Confederates Gave Order by Phone Required to Touch Victim In Same Room as Victim Ordinary Person Giving Orders Run-Down Office Building Baseline-Females Baseline-Males Percent Who Fully Obeyed

8. Prejudice and Racism

9. shooting of Michael Brown August 9, 2014 Ferguson, Missouri http://media3.s-nbcnews.com/i/newscms/2014_39/633526/140824-michael-brown-4p_e151133bf82ab2e33cf09a4fe0ebb405.jpg

11. Eric Garner July 17, 2014 Staten Island, NY

12. “islamaphobia” Are Muslims the new blacks? http://i.imgur.com/GxyiC.jpg

13. subtle biases microaggressions http://www.buzzfeed.com/hnigatu/racial-microagressions-you-hear-on-a-daily-basis

15. A coin a day makes a thousand coins in a thousand days. In time, a rope may saw through a tree, and dripping water can wear away stone. (Zhang Guiya, Southern Song Dynasty)

16. Two Themes power of the situation diversity is a social influence our awareness of our differences shapes our behaviors, thoughts, and feelings about ourselves and others diversity is socially constructed we perceive the world through our own filters

17. Which orange circle is bigger?

19. % who believe blacks are treated as well as whites

20. % who believe that blacks have as good a chance as whites to get any job for which they are qualified

21. % who believe that the Michael Brown shooting raises important questions about race that need to be discussed

22. Causes Sociological Factors Personality Factors Social Factors Cognitive Factors Unconscious Factors

23. Sociological Factors criminal justice system wages and wealth power and politics education de facto segregation etc. https://blogs.staffs.ac.uk/mikehamlyn/files/2014/02/level-playing-field.png

24. What’s in a name?

26. Personality Factors trait ego protection power and status fear and anxiety belief in a just world frustration

27. Social Factors competition learned attitudes and beliefs conformity group decision-making inequality itself

29. Cognitive Factors byproduct of how our brain processes information

30. Which would a wealthy, 59-year old business man from New England like most? going to the circus being tickled keeping up with the Kardashians reading the newspaper

31. categorization we have a strong tendency to sort people into groups extraverts couch potatoes morning people those who can drive a stick shift tree huggers Honda owners etc natural and unavoidable adaptive and efficient …

33. http://www.incrediblethings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/usa-stereotypes-map.jpg

34. … but it leads to bias in-group favoritism and out-group derogation Boston Red Sox vs. New York Yankees RMC vs. Hampden-Sydney democrats vs. republicans etc. Social Identity Theory

36. How many dots are in the following picture?

37. minimal intergroup discrimination effect even with the most trivial of distinctions, we tend to notice ingroups and outgroups favor ingroups “us v. them”

38. Jane Elliott https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQAmdZvKf6M

39. outgroup homogeneity bias we assume the outgroup is homogeneous “they are all alike” yet we see variety in our ingroup “we are heterogeneous” Why?

40. own race bias recall faces of our own race more accurately than faces of other races “they all look alike”

41. Ronald Cotton Jennifer Thompson

42. Listen to these words: count backwards from 1000 by 7s name the seven dwarfs slumber? dream? rest? sleep?

43. Words About Sleep rest eat tired slumber awake sounds dream comfort snore wake bed night

44. biased memory fill in gaps with information that fits our stereotypes automatic maintenance leads to biased interpretations of ambiguous events Who started the fight? Was that a dirty look?

45. self-fulfilling prophecies expectations create behavior perpetuates a vicious cycle

46. stereotype threat

47. Unconscious Factors stand up and balance on one foot now close your eyes implicit bias unconscious, automatic, unintentional dual attitude system can influence our behavior

48. shooter bias shoot or don’t shoot?

49. The Implicit Association Test (IAT) 6 minutes 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYkd--pcJRo

50. Project Implicit

52. “If we tell ourselves that the only problem is hate, we avoid facing the reality that it is mostly nice, non-hating people who perpetuate racial inequality.” (Ellis Cose)