Psy 302: Precept Readings

                          Week:  9/28  |  10/5  |  10/19  |  11/9  |  11/16 |  11/23  |  11/30  |  12/7  |  12/14

Week 9/28: Introduction to Experimentation

Week 10/5: Ethical Issues

• Baumrind, D. (1964). Some thoughts on ethics research: after reading Milgram's behavioral study of obedience. American Psychologist, 19, 421-423.
• Milgram, S. (1964). Issues in the study of obedience: a reply to Baumrind. American Psychologist, 19, 848-852.
• Ross, L., Lepper, M.R., & Hubbard, M. (1975). Perseverance in self-perception and social perception: biased attribution process in the debriefing paradigm. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 32(5), 880-892.

Week 10/19: Questionnaire Studies

• Schwartz, N., & Strack, F. (1992).  Evaluating one's life: a judgment model of subjective well-being. In F. Strack, M. Argyle, & N. Schwartz: Subjective Well-Being, pp.27-47.
• Sprecher, S., Quintin, S., and Hatfield, E. (1994). Mate selection preferences: gender differences in a national sample. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66, 1074-1080.

Week 11/9: Observational and Participant Observational Studies

• Festinger, L. Riechen, H.W., & Schacter, S. (1956). When Prophecy Fails.
• Rosenhan, D.L. (1973). On being sane in insane places. Science, 179, 250-258.

Week 11/16: Archival Research

• Sales, S.M. (1973). Threat as a factor in authoritarianism: an analysis of archival data. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 28, 44-57.
• Janis, I.L. (1971). Groupthink, Psychology Today.
• Lau, R.R., & Russell, D. (1980). Attributions in the sports pages: a field test of some current hypotheses in attribution research. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 39, 29-38.

Week 11/23: Field Research

• Langer, E., Blank, A., & Chanowitz, B. (1978). The mindlessness of ostensibly thoughtful action: the role of placebic information in interpersonal interaction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 36, 635-642.
• Isen, A.M., & Levin, P.F. (1972). Effects of feeling good on helping: cookies and kindness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 21, 384-388.

Week 11/30: Field Research and the Lab

• Dutton, D.G., & Aron, A.P. (1974). Heightened sexual attraction under high anxiety. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 30, 510-517.
• Darley, J. & Batson, D. (1973). From Jerusalem to Jericho: a study of situational and dispositional variables in helping behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 27, 100-108.

Week 12/7: Lab Research

• Berglas, S., & Jones, E.E. (1978). Drug choice as a self-handicapping strategy in response to noncontingent success. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 36, 405-417.
• Miller, D.T., & McFarland, C. (1987). Pluralistic Ignorance: when similarities is interpreted as dissimilarity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 53, 298-305.

Week 12/14: From Research to Writing