WEEK DATE CLASS READINGS

1 8.24 WHY SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY? NO READINGS

1 8.26 WHY EXPERIMENTS? Campbell (1960). Reforms as experiments.
Fernbach & Van Boven (2021). False polarization.
2 8.31 VALUE & BIAS: Rationality
Van Bavel & Pereira (2018). The Partisan Brain.
2 9.2 VALUE & BIAS: Moral Foundations Theory Haidt. (2012). The Righteous Mind. [excerpts]
3 9.7 MEDIA LAB NO READINGS—work on your PSA
3 9.9 MEMO LAB NO READINGS—work on your PSA
4 9.14 PSA VIDEO PRESENTATIONS NO READINGS—work on your PSA presentation
4 9.16 PSA VIDEO PRESENTATIONS—MEMOS DUE NO READINGS—finalize your PSA memo
5 9.21 VALUE & BIAS: Bounded ethicality Bazerman & Tenbrunsel (2011). Blind spots [excerpts]
Weston. (2007). The political brain. [excerpts]
5 9.23 WINNING ELECTIONS: Emotions
Bring your favorite political ad!
Hall et al (2009). Shallow cues with deep effects.
6 9.28 WINNING ELECTIONS: Biases
Mutz (2018). Status threat, not economic hardship…
6 9.30 WINNING ELECTIONS: Get out the vote Bring your favorite “get out the vote” example!
7 10.5 WINNING ELECTIONS: Wisdom of crowds Surowiecki (2004). Wisdom of crowds [excerpts]
7 10.7 Impromptu midterm review!
8 10.12 READING DAY NO READINGS—STUDY FOR EXAM
8 10.14 MIDTERM EXAM NO READINGS—STUDY FOR EXAM
Diener & Seligman (2014). Beyond money.
9 10.19 POLICY AND SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING (SWB)
Oishi et al (2011). Progressive taxation and the subjective well-being…
9 10.21 SURVEY DESIGN LAB Find an example of a survey from Pew, Gallup…
10 10.26 SURVEY DESIGN WORKSHOP Bring some examples of questions you might ask
Claro et al. (2016). Growth mindset tempers the effects of poverty…
10 10.28 SPOTLIGHT ON POLICY: Education Goyer et al. (2017). Self-affirmation facilitates minority middle
schoolers'…
Payne et al. (2017). The bias of crowds.
11 11.2 SPOTLIGHT ON POLICY: Healthcare
Leitner et al. (2016). Blacks’ death rate due to circulatory diseases…
SPOTLIGHT ON POLICY: Tuesday's election and Eberhardt et al. (2006). Looking deathworthy.
11 11.4
Critical Race Theory Sommers & Marotta (2014). Racial disparities in legal outcomes.
Thaler & Sunstein. (2008). Nudge. [excerpts]
12 11.9 SPOTLIGHT ON POLICY: Nudges
Halpern (2015). Inside the Nudge Unit. [excerpts]
SPOTLIGHT ON POLICY: Criminal Justice
*I will still give you some time to check in and do Revisit: Eberhardt et al. (2006). Looking deathworthy, and Sommers &
12 11.11
some work with your new groups Marotta (2014). Racial disparities in legal outcomes.
SWB SURVEYS & MEMOS DUE
 Henderson et al (2021). Confederate Monuments and the History of
13 11.16 SPOTLIGHT ON POLICY: Confederate monuments Lynching…
Check out most recent poll on Confederate monuments.
13 11.18 SPOTLIGHT ON POLICY: Ideological violence Reicher et al (2008). Making a virtue of evil.
14 11.23 THANKSGIVING NO READINGS—Enjoy your break!
14 11.25 THANKSGIVING NO READINGS—Enjoy your break!
15 11.30 SPOTLIGHT ON POLICY: Guns Anderson (2008). The urge to end it all.
15 12.2 NUDGE POWERPOINT + PRESENTATIONS NO READINGS—Work on your Nudge project
16 12.7 NUDGE POWERPOINT + PRESENTATIONS NO READINGS—Work on your Nudge project

FINAL EXAM DATES AND TIMES:

Section 1: Monday, December 13, 2021 9:00AM-12:00PM
Section 2: Thursday, December 16, 2021 2:00PM-5:00PM