Course Description:  This course provides an introductory survey of Social Psychology.  An emphasis is on the classic contributions--and contributors--to social psychology.

Text:  Notable Selections in Social Psychology (2nd Edition) by Terry F. Pettijohn (1998)

Office Hours/Phone & E-mail:  Tue/Thur. 8:30 - 9:30 and by appointment.  Phone:  7-3056 (607-3056 from off-campus in the 909 area code).  E-mail:  Hfairchild@pitzer.edu (school) or E2e4mate@aol.com (home).  Home phone:  (323) 734-0809.
 

Date	Topic/Readings1
1-19	Introductions and Course Overview
1-21	Methods and Statistics
1-26	1.1 Floyd Henry Allport: Social Psychology; 1.2 Diana Baumrind: Research Using Intentional Deception-Ethical Issues Revisited
1-28	1.3 Ellen Berscheid:  A Glance Back at a Quarter Century of Social Psychology; Fairchild & Gurin (1978):  Traditions inthe Social Psychological Analysis of Race Relations (p. 2)
2-2	2.1 Harold Kelley:  The Processes of Causal Attribution; 2.2 Leon Festinger:  A Theory of Social Comparison Processes; 2.3 Abraham Tesser:  Toward a Self-Evaluation Maintenance Model of Social Behavior; H. Fairchild: Why Black History is Not Just For Blacks (p. 1)
2-4	3.1 Albert Bandura:  Self-Efficacy:  Toward a Unifying Theory of Behavioral Change; 3.2 Mark Snyder:  The Many Me's of the Self-Monitor; Anthony R. D'Augelli:  Identity Development and Sexual Orientation - Toward a Model of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Development(p. 14)
2-9	3.3 Marilynn B. Brewer:  The Social Self- On Being the Sameand Different at the Same Time; 3.4 Hazel Rose Markus & Shinobu Kitayama: Culture and the Self-Implications for Cognition, Emotion, and Motivation;  M.A. Alquijay:  'Triple Whammy:' Being female, homosexual and ethnic in an oppressive society (p. 25); Dina Birman:  Biculturalism and Ethnic Identity:  An Integrated Model (p. 27)
2-11	Film:  Beyond the Glass Ceiling
2-16	4.1 Sandra L. Bem:  The Measurement of Psychological Androgyny; 4.2 Kay Deaux:  How Basic Can You Be?  The Evolution of Researchon Gender Stereotypes; 4.3 Karen K. Dion & Kenneth L. Dion:  Individualistic and Collectivistic Perspectives on Gender and the Cultural Context of Love and Intimacy
2-18	5.1 Icek Ajzen & Martin Fishbein:  Attitude-Behavior Relations: A Theoretical Analysis and Review of Empirical Research; 5.2 Sharon Shavitt & Russell H. Fazio:  Effects of Attribute Salience on the Consistency Between Attitudes and Behavior Predictions; H. H. Fairchild, Our 'Ostrich Mentality' on Racism (p. 30); H. H. Fairchild; The Fires This Time:  Lessons from Los Angeles; 1992 (p. 31)
2-23	6.1 Leon Festinger & James M. Carlsmith:  Cognitive Consequences of Forced Compliance; 6.2 Richard E. Petty & John T. Cacioppo: The Effects of Involvement on Responses to Argument Quantity and Quality: Central and Peripheral Routes to Persuasion; 6.3 Sang-Pil Han & Sharon Shavitt:  Persuasion and Culture:  Advertising Appeals in Individualisticand Collectivisitc Societies; H. Fairchild & Gloria Cowan:  The O.J. Simpson Trial:  Challenges to Science and Society (p. 38)
2-25	7.1 Gordon W. Allport:  The Nature of Prejudice; 7.2 Muzafer Sherif: Experiments in Group Conflict; 7.3 Samuel L. Gaertner; et al.: Reducing Intergroup Bias:  The Benefits of Recategorization
3-2	8.1 Karen Dion; Ellen Bersheid & Elaine Walster:  What is Beautiful is Good; 8.2 David M. Buss:  Strategies of Human Mating; Peter M. Nardi & Drury Sherrod:  Friendship in the Lives of Gay Men and Lesbians (p. 43)
3-4	8.3 Michael R. Cunningham:  Measuring the Physical in Physical Attractiveness - Quasi-Experiments on the Sociobiology of Female Facial Beauty; 8.4 Peter M. Nardi:  Gays Should Lean on Justice; Not Science;(p. 51)
3-9	Film:  Long Black Song; Review
3-11	First Quiz
3-16	SPRING BREAK
3-18	SPRING BREAK
3-23	9.1  Robert J. Sternberg:  The Triangle of Love, Intimacy, Passion, Commitment; 9.2 Elaine Hatfield & Richard L. Rapson: Love, Sex and Intimacy: Their Psychology, Biology and History; 9.3 Cindy Hazan & Phillip Shaver:  Romantic Love Conceptualized as an Attachment Process
3-25	Film:  The Politics of Love:  In Black and White (33min.); 8:00 p.m. - Evening Lecture:  Professor Emerita Samella Lewis(Humanities Auditorium; Scripps)
3-30	10.1 Stanley Milgram:  Behavioral Study of Obedience; 10.2 Jonathan L. Freedman & Scott C. Fraser: Compliance Without Pressure: The Foot-in-the-Door Technique; 10.3 Jerry M. Burger: Increasing Compliance by Improving the Deal:  The That's-Not-All Technique
4-1	Film:  Behavioral Study of Obedience
4-6	11.1 Robert B. Zajonc:  Social Facilitation; 11.2 Bibb Latane, Kipling Williams & Stephen Harkins:  Many Hands Make Light theWork:  The Causes and Consequences of Social Loafing
4-8	11.3 Morton Deutsch & Robert M. Krauss:  The Effect ofThreat Upon Interpersonal Bargaining; 11.4 Irving L. Janis: Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes
4-13	12.1 John M. Darley & Bibb Latane:  Bystander Interventionin Emergencies:  Diffusion of Responsibility; 12.2 Alice M. Isen& Paula F. Levin:  Effect of Feeling Good on Helping:  Cookies and Kindness; H. H. Fairchild:  Creating Positive Television Images (p. 52)
4-15	Film:  To be announced
4-20	13.1 Albert Bandura; Dorothea Ross & Sheila A. Ross: Imitation of Film-Mediated Aggressive Models; 13.2 L. Rowell Huesmann; Psychological Processes Promoting the Relation Between Exposure to MediaViolence and Aggressive Behavior by the Viewer; 13.3 Leonard Berkowitz: Aggression:  Its Causes, Consequences, and Control
4-22	Film:  Quiet Rage:  The Stanford Experiment
4-27	14.1 Robert Sommer & Franklin D. Becker:  Territorial Defense and the Good Neighbor; 14.2 Shelley E. Taylor:  Adjustment to Threatening Events:  A Theory of Cognitive Adaptation; 14.3 Herbert C. Kelman:  Group Processes in the Resolution of International Conflicts: Experiences from the Israeli-Palestinian Case; H. H. Fairchild:  The Problem of the 21st Century (p. 57)
4-29	Film Clip:  Lightning Strike; Review
5-4	Second Quiz
5-6	Summation

 

This course is writing and speaking intensive.  For each reading, each day, students should prepare very brief "thumbnail sketches" of the reading.  You should also produce "reaction statements."  These reaction statements should provide your personal reactions to the reading--how it relates to your own experiences or values.  The reaction statements may also focus theoretical or methodological issues.  Whereas the thumbnail sketches should be brief, the reaction statements may be brief or more developed.  More developed papers are generally evaluated more favorably.  Films shown on one day should be sketched and reacted to the following day.  Papers are collected at the end of class every Thursday (except March 11 and May 4, when no paper is due).  Each of the 12 weekly papers is worth up to 100 points and is subjectively evaluated.  Late papers are awarded 1/2 credit.  Each of the two quizzes is worth 500 points.  Class participation is worth up to 800 points.  As attendance is mandatory, absences, regardless of excuse(s), negatively affect the class participation score.

Extra Credit:  Up to 100 points are awarded for attending the lecture on March 25, or each half day of the Conference on Caribbean Literature (April 1-3).

Final Grades:  Students may earn up to 3000 points (or more, depending on the extra credit).  A: 2760 or more; A-: 2700-2759; B+: 2640 - 2699; B: 2460 - 2639; B-: 2400 - 2459; C+: 2340 - 2399; C: 2160 - 2339; etc.  (Grades are based on percentages of points earned:  92% or more = A; 90-91.9% = A-; 88-89.9%=B+; 82-87.9%=B; 80-81.9%=B-; etc.)