Helpful Sites

Myers on-line website: 9/e or 8/e

Excellent On-Line Demonstrations and Videos

General Social Psychology

	Social Psychology Network
	PsychBlog: excellent Blog dealing with social psychological phenomenon
	The Situationist: research dealing with the effects of situational forces

Social Cognition

	Forming impressions: see how well you can judge others and get judged by others on a range of personality traits
	Determine gender from writing simple: Cut and paste a writing sample to see if gender genie can guess your gender
	Perception of faces: on-line experiment looking at perception of rival faces (for males) or preference for hooking up (females)
	Names and faces: Do people's faces match their names?

Fundamental Attribution Error ("I have a scream speech")

	Howard Dean pic
	Dean Scream, with techno beat
	Camera on Dean vs. Camera on Dean and Audience

Interestingly, people seeing the straight-on close-up view of Dean giving his speech may be more prone to make dispositional attributions for why Dean got so excited, whereas those seeing the floor/audience perspective might be more inclined to make a situational attribution

What happens when you put good people in an evil place? Does humanity win over evil, or does evil triumph? These are some of the questions researchers posed in this dramatic simulation of prison life that became known today as the Stanford Prison Experiment.

Website devoted to the research of Stanley Milgram

	Canadian anti-cigarette ads- are fear warnings effective?
	Presidential Ad Campaigns

	Excerpts from 2007 documentary on Jonestown
	Survivor of Jonestown discusses her ambivalence over the mass suicide/murder 25 years later (2003)

Eyewitness Identification: Test your eyewitness aptitude

Simulation of Child Abduction: Would you help?

	Virginia Tech Massacre (2007)
	Understanding how good people turn evil: Explaining Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse

	Test yourself for hidden biases (Project Implicit, Understanding Prejudice)
	Watch the film A Class Divided and see footage from Classic film, Eye of the Storm (1971), in which a third grade teacher, Ms Elliott divides class by eye color to demonstrate the effects of discrimination. Also interviews students 20 years later to see how it affected their lives. A similar experiment is done on prison employees.