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	Social Psychology I

INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY The Society of Personality and Social Psychology web page can be found at http://www.spsp.org/ The Social Psychology Network can be found at http://www.socialpsychology.org/ The social psychology resource area of PsychWeb can be found at http://www.psywww.com/resource/bytopic.htm#social A class at Miami University that tracks news stories that are particularly relevant to social psychology can be found at http://miavx1.muohio.edu/~psybersite/news/ GROUP INFLUENCE For a web site that examines the Heaven's Gate suicide, see http://www.vcu.edu/hasweb/psy/psy633/hg.htm Conformity: Going Along To Get Along For biographical information about Solomon Asch, go to http://www.psych.upenn.edu/sacsec/about/solomon.htm Reactions to the obedience studies For a discussion of positive and negative aspects of the role of authority in the military, see http://www2.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/army/civil.htm. A web site devoted to Milgram can be found at http://www.stanleymilgram.com/index.html. Of particular interest is the area devoted to "little known facts"about Milgram http://www.stanleymilgram.com/facts.html Milgram argued that his work was in direct response to the Nazi Holocaust and to the defenses offered by Nazi war criminals. For an overview of the war crimes trial of Adolf Eichmann and the defenses he offered, see http://www.pbs.org/eichmann/trial.htm A news story comparing obedience strategies in prisons in the United States and Japan can be found at http://www.apbnews.com/cjsystem/behind_bars/1999/12/09/japan/ Groupthink: When good people make bad decisions For a groupthink analysis of the Challenger disaster see http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/Speech/theory16.htm#The Challenger For a groupthink analysis of the Waco tragedy see http://www.csbsju.edu/USPP/Research/Waco.html The communication approach to persuasion Click on http://carmen.artsci.washington.edu/propaganda/video/index.html to link to the Propaganda Analysis Homepage. This site contains video examples of propaganda and commentary. You will need RealPlayer to view the video clips. Click on http://www.adcritic.com/ to see examples of more recent commercial propaganda (i.e., advertisements). Click on http://www.influenceatwork.com/indexacademic.html to link to a large web site/e-book on persuasion.

	Click an activity to open it: • Conformity • Conformity Factors • Milgram Obedience Experiment • Why Obey • Bay of Pigs • Impression Formation • What's Going On? • In Your Face • Actors and Observers • Birds of a Feather • Ratings Game • Love Scale • Love Triangle • Attachment Style • Ad Categorization Activity • Dissonance Theater • Decision Model of Helping • Self-fulfilling Prophecy Movie • Impressions and Expressions • Reducing Prejudice • Prisoner's Dilemma • Faces of the Enemy