Readings:
Asch (1952). Structured properties of
experience
and action.
Wegner & Bargh (1998). Control and
automaticity
in social life.
Bargh (1997). The automaticity of everyday
life.
Precept:
Quote
1
Research in psychology.
How aware are we of our thought processes and
judgments?
Reading: Nisbett & Wilson (1977)
Presenter: Amanda
Readings:
Hastorf & Cantril (1954). They saw a game.
A case study.
Vallone, Ross, & Lepper (1985). The hostile
media phenomenon.
Asch (1946). Forming impressions of
personality.
Precept:
Quote
2
Illusory correlation: Seeing is believing
Reading: Hamilton & Rose (1980)
Presenters:
Readings:
Bruner, Goodnow, & Austin.
(1956).
A study of thinking.
Fiske & Taylor (1991). Social
cognition:
Social categories and schemas.
Macrae, Hewstone, & Griffiths (1993).
Processing
load and memory for stereotype-based information..
Precept:
Quote
3
Cognitive structures allow decisions to be made
and judgments to be formed "mindlessly."
Reading: Langer, Blank, & Chanowitz
(1978)
Presenters:
Readings:
Heider (1958). The psychology of
interpersonal
relations.
Brown (1986). Attribution theory.
Kelley (1971). Attribution in social
interaction.
Fiske (1999). The continuum model.
Precept:
Quote
4
Attribution and counterfactual thought: The
preoccupation
with thoughts of "if-only" and "why?"
Reading: Wells & Gavanski (1989)
Readings:
Jones & Davis (1965). From acts to
dispositions:
The attribution process in person perception.
Uleman, Newman, & Moskowitz (1996). People
as flexible interpreters; Evidence and issues from STI
McArthur & Apatow (1983). Impressions of
baby-faced
adults.
Precept:
Quote
5
Attention grabbing properties of other people
and their impact on correspondent inference
Reading: Taylor, Fiske, Close, Anderson, &
Ruderman (1978)
Presenters:
Readings:
Ross (1977). The intuitive psychologist
and his shortcomings: Distortions in the attribution process.
Jones & Nisbett (1971). The actor and the
observer: Divergent perceptions of the causes of behavior.
Bradley (1978). Self serving biases in the
attribution
process.
Nisbett & Ross (1980). Judgmental heuristics
and knowledge structures.
Precept:
MIDTERM
EXAMINATION
Spring Break
Readings:
Jones (1979). The rocky road from acts to
dispositions.
Gilbert (1989). Thinking lightly about
others:
Automatic components of the social inference process.
Trope & Liberman (1993). The what, when, and
how of dispositional inference.
Precept:
Quote
7
Overattribution to disposition despite blatant
situational forces
Reading: Ross, Amabile, & Steinmetz
(1977)
Presenters:
Readings:
Postman, Bruner, & McGinnies (1948). Personal
values as selective factors in perception.
Higgins, Rholes, & Jones (1977).
Category
accessibility and impression formation
Strack et al. (1993). Awareness of the influence
as a determinant of assimilation versus contrast.
Precept:
Quote
8
One's theories about the influences on one's
judgment
Reading: Petty & Wegener (1993)
Presenters:
Readings:
Jones (1986). Interpreting interpersonal
behavior:
The effects of expectancies.
Snyder & Swann (1978). Hypothesis-testing
processes in social interaction.
Schneider (1973). Implicit personality
theory.
Devine (1989). Stereotypes and prejudice:
Their automatic and controlled components.
Precept:
Quote
9
Expectancy effects on behavior
Reading: Word, Zanna, & Cooper (1974)
Presenters:
Readings:
Darley & Gross (1983). A
hypothesis-confirming
bias in labeling effects.
Banaji, Hardin, & Rothman (1993). Implicit
stereotyping in person judgment.
Fiske (1993). Controlling other people: The
impact
of power on stereotyping.
Precept:
Quote
10
Stereotypes and Naive realism: The consequences
of failing to see one's stereotype-relevant biases.
Reading: Robinson, Keltner, Ward, & Ross
(1995)
Presenters:
Readings:
Tetlock (1985). Accountability: A social check
on the fundamental attribution error.
Thompson, Roman, Moskowitz, Chaiken, & Bargh
(1994). Accuracy motivation attenuates priming...
Neuberg (1989). The goal of forming accurate
impressions
during social interactions...
Precept:
Quote
11
When stereotyping is attenuated by attending to
individuating (and stereotype-inconsistent) information.
Reading: Stangor & Ruble (1989)
Presenters:
Readings:
Wilson & Brekke (1994). Mental contamination
and mental correction.
Macrae, et al. (1994). Out of mind but back in
sight: Stereotypes on the rebound.
Kunda (1987). Motivation and inference.
Self-serving
generation and evaluation of evidence.
Precept:
Quote
12
When elaboration leads to subtyping rather than
a bias-free judgment.