PSX_512 Human Nature: Key Studies in Psychology

LECTURE 3: Social perception and social influence

Video lectures and all materials now available!

Unfortunately, these online lectures are not top-quality, as there is no time for scripting or editing. It is simply just me talking to the slides, which will also be available in PDF below as usual. Please do not distribute these study materials further -- they are only meant for the purposes of this course! Video quality not suitable for wider distribution...

VIDEO LECTURES

Part 1: Course info + Ego depletion

Part 2: Famous research on social influence I

I apologize for poor sound quality; unfortulately, the system settings were reset to the default for unknown reason, and internal microphone was recorded instead of the external microphone...:-(

Part 3: Problems and good practices in psychological science

Part 4: Famous research on social influence II

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):

Conformity in everyday situations: The bystander effect


Experiments on conformity by Salomon Asch:


Experiment on obedience (S. Milgram):


Stanford Prison Experiment (P. Zimbardo):


LECTURE SLIDES 3: Social influence - famous studies in social psychology
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