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Survey Course: Big Ideas in the Study of Social

Psychology

1. Expectations
Steele, C.M. & Josephs, R.A. (1990). Alcohol myopia: Its prized and
dangerous effects. American Psychologist, 45(8), 921-933.
Marlatt, G.A., Demming, B. & Reid, I.B. (1973). Loss of control drinking in
alcoholics: an experimental analogue. Journal of Abnormal Psychology,
81, 233-41.
Beecher, H.K. (1955). The powerful placebo. Journal of the American
Medical Association, 159(17), 1602-1606.

2. Social Conformity
Asch, S. E. (1956). Studies of independence and conformity: I. A minority
of one against a unanimous majority. Psychological Monographs:
General and Applied, 70(9), 170.
Deutsch, M. & Gerard, H.B. (1955). A study of normative and
informational social influences upon individual judgment. Journal of
Abnormal Social Psychology, 51, 629-36.
Milgram, S. (1974). Obedience to authority: An experimental view.*

3. Social Perception
Rosenhan, D. L. (1973). On being sane in insane places. Science,
179(4070), 250258.
Rosenthal, R., & Jacobson, L. (1968). Pygmalion in the classroom. The
Urban Review, 3(1), 1620.

4. Social Responsibility
Darley, J.M., & Latan, B. (1968). Bystandarder intervention in
emergencies: Diffusion of responsibility. Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology, 8(4), 377-383.
Kraut, R.E. (1973). Effects of social labeling on giving to charity. Journal
of Experimental Social Psychology, 9(6), 551562.

5. Stereotypes
Steele, C.M. (1997). A threat in the air: How stereotypes shape
intellectual identity and performance. American Psychologist, 52(6),
613-629.
Biernat, M., & Manis, M. (1994). Shifting standards and stereotype-based
judgments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66(1), 520.

6. Gender Roles
Bem, S.L. (1974). The measurement of psychological androgyny. Journal
of Consulting Clinical Psychology, 42,155-62.
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Deaux, K. & Emawifier, T. (1974). Explanations of successful

performance on sex-linked tasks: what is skill for the male is luck for
the male is luck for the female. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 29, 80-5.
Gove, W.R. & Tudor, I.F. (1973). Adult sex roles and mental illness.
American Journal of Sociology, 78, 812-35.

7. The Self
Markus, H. & Nurius, P. (1986). Possible selves. American Psychology,
41(9), 954-969.
Snyder M. (1974). Self-monitoring of expressive behavior. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 30, 526-37.
Triandis, H.C. (1989). The self and social behavior in differing cultural
contexts. Psychological Review, 96(3), 506-520.

8. Locus of Control
Abramson, L. Y., Seligman, M. E., & Teasdale, J. D. (1978). Learned
helplessness in humans: Critique and reformulation. Journal Of
Abnormal Psychology, 87(1), 49-74.
Peterson, C., & Seligman, M. E. (1984). Causal explanations as a risk
factor for depression: Theory and evidence. Psychological Review,
91(3), 347-374.

9. Motivation
Dweck, C.S., Chiu, C., & Hong, Y. (1995). Implicit theories and their role
in judgments and reactions: A world from two perspectives.
Psychological Inquiry, 6(4), 267-285.
Bandura, A. (1982). Self-efficacy mechanism in human agency.
American Psychologist, 37(2), 122-147.

10. Self Narrative

Carey, B. (2007). This is your life (and how you tell it). The New York
Times.
Anderson, R. L. (2005). Nietzsche on truth, illusion, and redemption.
European Journal of Philosophy, 13(2), 185225.
Bruner, J. (1991). The narrative construction of reality. Critical Inquiry,
18, 1-21.

11. Emotion
Zajonc, R. B. (1980). Feeling and thinking: Preferences need no
inferences. American Psychologist, 35(2), 151175.
Russell, J. A. (2003). Core affect and the psychological construction of
emotion. Psychological Review, 110(1), 145172.
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Barrett, L.F. (2006). Are emotions natural kinds? Perspectives on

Psychological Science, 1, 28-58.

12. Attribution
Heider, F, & Simmel, M. (1944). An experimental study of apparent
behavior. American Journal of Psychology, 57, 243259.
Ross, L., Lepper, M. R., & Hubbard, M. (1975). Perseverance in self-
perception and social perception: Biased attributional processes in the
debriefing paradigm. Journal Of Personality And Social Psychology,
32(5), 880-892.
Johnson, M. K., & Raye, C. L. (1981). Reality monitoring. Psychological
Review, 88(1), 6785.

13. Memory
Snyder, M., & Uranowitz, S. W. (1978). Reconstructing the past: Some
cognitive consequences of person perception. Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology, 36(9), 941950.
Johnson, M.K., & Sherman, S.J. (1990). Constructing and reconstructing
the past and the future in the present. In E.T. Higgins & R.M. Sorrentino
(Eds.), Handbook of motivation and social cognition: Foundations of
social behavior (pp. 482-526). New York: Guilford Press.
Loftus, E. F. (1993). The reality of repressed memories. American
Psychologist, 48(5), 518-537.

14. Cultural Relativity

Zola, I.K. (1966). Culture and symptomsan analysis of patients
presenting complaints. American Sociological Review, 31, 615-30.
Markus, H.R. & Kitayama, S. (1991). Culture and the self: Implications for
cognition, emotion, and motivation. Psychological Review, 98(2), 224-
253.
Hail E T. (1963). A system for the notation of proxemic behavior.
American Anthropologist, 65, 1003-26.
Lvi-Strauss, C. (1962). The Savage Mind.*

15. Social Contagion

Boss, L.P. (1997). Epidemic hysteria: A review of the published literature.
Epidemiological Reviews, 19(2), 233-243.
Crandall, C.S. (1988). Social contagion of binge eating. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 55(4), 588-598.
Hacking, I. (1995). Rewriting the soul: Multiple personality and the
sciences of memory.*

*Selected Excerpts
Updated: November 2012
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