Case Studies for Teaching Social Psychology

Preface: To Students and Their Teachers Chapter 1: How Do Social Psychologists Think? To Wear or Not to Wear an Ineffective Mask: That Was the Question During the Coronavirus Pandemic An Exercise About Sex and Social Interactionism The Neighs Have It: Testing Theories With Experiments A Painful Intuition: Bloodletting Chapter 2: The Social Psychologist's Toolbox Crucial Experiments: Who's Talking Now? Ethnography: Gang Leader for a Day Health Detective: The Missing Pump Handle Witchcraft and False Confessions: Then and Now Chapter 3: The Social Self Phineas Gage: The Self With a Hole in His Head The Changing Self: Identity of Transgender Individuals The Disappearing Self: Lost Memory The Pregnant Self: Does My Bump Look Big in This? Chapter 4: Social Cognition Intuition in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Dual Processing Medical Diagnoses Girl or Boy? Gender Socialization Begins at Ultrasound Sexual Scripts and Sexual Regrets Chapter 5: Person Perception "Tell Me the Truth-Am I Too Pretty?" Marilyn Monroe and the Halo Effect From Street Kid to Magician: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies Intellectual Bloomers: The Slow Creation of a Classic Study The Rock in the Coffin: Terror Management Theory Chapter 6: Attitudes and Persuasion Cognitive Dissonance, Part I: Prelude to a Theory Cognitive Dissonance, Part II: The Flying Saucer That Never Came Understanding Drug Use: The Theory of Planned Behavior Chapter 7: Social Influence Obedience Plus: More Data From the Shock Experiments Mods and Rockers: A Moral Panic Big Fish Eat Small Fish: Social Coordination in a Violent World Chapter 8: Group Processes More Than a Game: The Prisoner's Dilemma Interpersonal Rejection: A Case Study of 14 School Shootings On the Shoulders of Giantesses: The First Computer Programmers Chapter 9: Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination Economic Anxiety and the Illegal Deportation of U.S. Citizens Intersectionality: Sojourner Truth Environmental Psychology and Institutional Discrimination: What Happened at Erasmus High School? Footnote 11: After the Doll Studies Chapter 10: Helping and Prosocial Behavior The Misunderstood Murder of Kitty Genovese: A Continuing Case Study Zombie Wasps and Altruistic Vampire Bats The Bacon Truce: Cooperation Despite War The Subway Samaritan: The Mathematics of Relative Altruism Chapter 11: Aggression Doloreisa's Story: Aggression, Prostitution, and Sex Trafficking The Great Train Robbery: Violence as Entertainment The Cinderella Effect Chapter 12: Intimate Relationships Religion and Marriage Counseling Male Victims of Relationship Abuse The Influence of Dating Technology Happily Ever After: Ingredients to a Long, Happy Marriage References Index