1. DavidMyers HMXP 102 “Ingroup and Outgroup”
(Thanks to Dr. Matt Fike for most of these slides)

2. Background information
Background on Myers:

3. David Myers Social psychologist at Hope College, Holland, MI
Extensively publishes in academic periodicals
9th edition of Social Psychology includes research findings on how misconceptions can preclude intercultural/interracial friendships

4. Group Activity: Understanding Myers
Three groups (10 minutes):  Try to work with people whom you do not know well.  Each group should summarize what Myers says about one of the following things and then report to the class.  Find at least two key passages to support your position.  If you finish your topic early, begin discussing one of the other topics. 
Group 1:  Community
Group 2:  Prejudice
Group 3:  Conformity

5. Stand-Up Exercise
When I describe a group, determine if you are in that group.
If you are in that group, stand up.

6. Connection to Lakoff and Johnson
We concluded that Lakoff and Johnson's work on metaphor supports the idea that "thoughts are things."  In other words, how you think about something shapes your reality. 
In the context of Myers’ work, then, we are not only receiving objects but also acting subjects with the power to determine our own situation and destiny.  How does this relate to the “conforming” behaviors you bring to Winthrop that may be in conflict with those of the “ingroups” established here? What adjustments have you had to make?
Myers says (70) that “it seems that positive feelings for our own groups need not be mirrored by equally strong negative feelings for outgroups.” So, what can you do to achieve a “both/and” versus a “us/them” situation?

7. Last Slide
How do you understand yourself better as a result of reading and discussing the Myers text?
What can you do to avoid the “ingroup/out-group” separation?
How could John Stewart Mills' arguments affect these separations? The search for truth?