February 1: Orientation & Course Introduction

February 3: Heuristics & Biases I: Thinking about Others

Gilbert & Malone (1995). The correspondence bias. Psychological Bulletin, 117, 21-38. Only read pgs. 21-24 and 32-35.

Nisbett & Wilson (1977). The halo effect: Evidence for unconscious alteration of judgments. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 35, 250-256.

Tversky & Kahneman (1974). Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases. Science, 185, 1124- 1130.

February 8: Heuristics & Biases II: Thinking about the Self

Brown, J. D. (1986). Evaluations of self and others: Self-enhancement biases in social judgments. Social Cognition, 4(4), 353-376.

Kwan et al. (2007). Assessing the neural correlates of self-enhancement bias: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study. Experimental Brain Research, 182(3), 379-385.

Sparrow et al. (2011). Google effects on memory: Cognitive consequences of having information at our fingertips. Science, 333, 776-778.

Suls et al. (2002). Social comparison: Why, with whom, and with what effect? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 159-163.

February 10: Heuristics & Biases III: Decision Making & Choice

Gal, D. (2020). Why the sun will not set on the endowment effect: the endowment effect after loss aversion. Current Opinion in Psychology.

Shah & Wolford (2007). Buying behaviors as a function of parametric variation of number of choices. Psychological Science, 18, 369-370.

Tversky & Kahneman (1981). The framing of decisions and the psychology of choice. Science, 211, 453–458.

February 15: Motivation—An Overview of Models

Blascovich & Mendes (2010). Social psychophysiology and embodiment. Handbook of social psychology (only read pp. 194-199 & the challenge and threat section on 207-208).

Elliot (2006). The hierarchical model of approach-avoidance motivation. Motivation & Emotion, 30, 111-116.

Jost & Hunyady (2005). Antecedents and consequences of system-justifying ideologies. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14, 260-265.

Ryan & Deci (2000). Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being. American Psychologist, 55, 68-78.

February 17: Motivation—Social Influences

Blascovich et al. (1999). Social facilitation as challenge and threat. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 77, 68-77.

Heyman & Ariely (2004). Effort for payment: A tale of two markets. Psychological Science, 15, 787- 793.

Karau & Williams (1995). Social loafing: Research findings, implications, and future directions. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 4, 134-140.

February 22: Religion & Social Cognition

Blogowska, J., Lambert, C., & Saroglou, V. (2013). Religious Prosociality and Aggression: It's Real. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 52(3), 524–536.

Hall et al. (2015). Costly signaling increases trust, even across religious affiliation. Psychological Science, 26, 1368-1376.

Norenzayan, A., Gervais, W. M., & Trzesniewski, K. H. (2012). Mentalizing deficits constrain belief in a personal god. PLoS ONE, 7(5), e36880.

February 24: Moral Judgments

Greene & Haidt (2002). How (and where) does moral judgment work? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6, 517-523.

Greene & Haidt (2002). How (and where) does moral judgment work? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Haidt, J. (2001). The emotional dog and its rational tail: a social intuitionist approach to moral judgment. Psychological review, 108(4), 814-834. Greene & Haidt (2002). How (and where) does moral judgment work? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Valdesolo & DeSteno (2006). Manipulations of emotional context shape moral judgment. Psychological Science, 17, 476-477.

March 1: Exam 1

March 8: Emotion (Overview of Models)

Barrett, L. F. (2017). The theory of constructed emotion: an active inference account of interoception and categorization. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 12(1), 1-23.

Harmon-Jones & Peterson (2009). Supine body position reduces neural response to anger evocation. Psychological Science, 20, 1209-1210.

Lindquist et al. (2012). The brain basis of emotion: A meta-analytic review. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 35(03), 121-143. - Only read pgs. 121-126 (through the "meta-analysis…" section)

March 10: Emotion Regulation

Etkin et al. (2015). The neural bases of emotion regulation. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 16(11), 693-700.

Gross, J. J. (2015). Emotion regulation: Current status and future prospects. Psychological inquiry, 26(1), 1-26.

Jamieson, J. P. et al. (2018). Capitalizing on appraisal processes to improve affective responses to social stress. Emotion Review, 10(1), 30-39.

Niedenthal (2007). Embodying emotion. Science, 316, 1002.

March 15: Ostracism, Rejection, & Social Exclusion

Lee, H. Y., et al. (2020). Getting Fewer "Likes" Than Others on Social Media Elicits Emotional Distress Among Victimized Adolescents. Child development, 91(6), 2141-2159.

Maner et al. (2010). The endocrinology of exclusion: Rejection elicits motivationally tuned changes in progesterone. Psychological Science, 21, 581-588.

Williams (2007). Ostracism: The kiss of social death. Social & Personality Psychology Compass, 1, 236- 247.

Wolke et al. (2013). Impact of bullying in childhood on adult health, wealth, crime, and social outcomes. Psychological Science, 24(10), 1958-1970.

March 17: Mind Perception—Anthropomorphism & Dehumanization

Gray et al. (2007). Dimensions of mind perception. Science, 315, 619.

Harris & Fiske (2006). Dehumanizing the lowest of the low: Neuroimaging responses to extreme outgroups. Psychological Science, 17, 847-853.

Powers et al. (2014). Social connection modulates perceptions of animacy. Psychological Science.

Waytz et al. (2010). Social cognition unbound: Insights into anthropomorphism and dehumanization. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19, 58-62.

March 22: Stereotyping & Prejudice—Agents

Akinola, M., & Mendes, W. B. (2012). Stress-induced cortisol facilitates threat-related decision making among police officers. Behavioral neuroscience, 126(1), 167.

Correll et al. (2002). The police officer's dilemma: Using ethnicity to disambiguate potentially threatening individuals. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 83, 1314-1329.

McConnell & Leibold (2001). Relations among the Implicit Associations Test, discriminatory behavior, and explicit measures of racial attitudes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 37, 435-442.

March 24: Stereotyping & Prejudice—Targets

Jamieson & Harkins (2009). The effect of stereotype threat on the solving of quantitative GRE problems: A mere effort interpretation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35(10), 1301-1314.

Leslie, Mayer, & Kravitz (2014). The stigma of affirmative action: A stereotyping-based theory and meta-analytic test of the consequences for performance. Academy of Management Journal, 57, 964-989.

Steele & Aronson (1995). Stereotype threat and the intellectual test performance of AfricanAmericans. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 69, 797-811.

March 29: Exam 2

March 31: Inequality & Social Cognition

Gordils, et al. (in press). Racial income inequality promotes perceptions of competition and predicts negative social outcomes, Social Psychological and Personality Science.

Piff et al. (2018). Unpacking the inequality paradox: The psychological roots of inequality and social class. In Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (Vol. 57, pp. 53-124). Academic Press. - read ONLY pgs. 57-79.

Wilkinson, R. G., & Pickett, K. E. (2009). Income inequality and social dysfunction. Annual Review of Sociology, 35, 493-511.

April 5: Mental Health & Social Cognition—An Overview

Baron-Cohen et al. (1985). Does the autistic child have "theory of mind"? Cognition, 21, 37-46.

Corrigan (2004). How stigma interferes with mental health care. American Psychologist, 59, 614-625

Gotlib & Joormann (2010). Cognition and depression: Current status and future directions. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 6, 285-312.

April 7: Suicide & Self-Injury

Glenn et al. (2011). Emotional reactivity in nonsuicidal self-injury: Divergence between self-report and startle measures. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 80, 166-170.

Kessler et al. (2005). Trends in suicide ideation, plans, gestures, and attempts in the United States, 1990-1992 to 2001-2003. JAMA: the journal of the American Medical Association, 293, 2487-2495.

Nock (2009). Why do people hurt themselves? New insights into the nature and functions of self-injury. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18, 78-83.

April 12: Mental Health: Psychological Treatments

Amir et al. (2008). The effect of single-session attention modification program on response to a public-speaking challenge in socially anxious individuals. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 117, 860- 868.

Butler et al. (2006). The empirical status of cognitive-behavioral therapy: A review of meta-analyses. Clinical Psychology Review, 26, 17-31.

Yeager, D. S., Lee, H. Y., & Jamieson, J. P. (2016). How to improve adolescent stress responses: Insights from integrating implicit theories of personality and biopsychosocial models. Psychological science, 27(8), 1078-1091.

April 14: Social-Cognitive Interventions

Brannon & Walton (2014). Enacting cultural interests: How intergroup contact reduces prejudice by sparking interest in an out-group's culture. Psychological Science.

Cohen, et al. (2009). Recursive processes in self-affirmation: Intervening to close the minority achievement gap. Science, 324, 400-403.

Bryan, Jamieson, Yeager et al. (2021). Changing Mindsets Can Reorient the Adolescent Stress Response System and Promote Resilience During Times of Crisis. Nature.

April 19: Social Cognition & Physical Health

Juster et al. (2010). Allostatic load biomarkers of chronic stress and impact on health and cognition. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 35, 2-16.

Suri, G., et al. (2013). Patient inertia and the status quo bias: when an inferior option is preferred. Psychological science, 24(9), 1763-1769.

Williams et al. (2003). Racial/ethnic discrimination and health: Findings from community studies. American Journal of Public Health, 93, 200-208.

April 21: Exam 3

April 26: Risk Taking

Payne et al. (2017). Economic inequality increases risk taking. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016,16453.

Porcelli & Delgado (2009). Acute stress modulates risk taking in financial decision making. Psychological Science, 20, 278-283.

Reyna (2004). How people make decisions that involve risk: A dual-process approach. Current Direction in Psychological Science, 13, 60-66.

April 28: Risk Taking—Developmental Perspectives

Gerend & Cullen (2008). Effects of message framing and temporal context on college student drinking behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1167-1173.

Jamieson & Mendes (2016). Social stress facilitates risk in youth. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

Steinberg (2007). Risk-taking in adolescence: New perspectives from brain and behavioral science. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16, 55-59.

May 3: Cross-Cultural Processes in Social Cognition

Cai et al. (2010). Tactical self-enhancement in China: Is modesty at the service of self-enhancement in East Asian culture? Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2, 59-64.

Kitayama & Uskul (2011). Culture, mind, and the brain: Current evidence and future directions. Annual Review of Psychology, 62, 419-449.

May 5: Self-Projection & Mental Simulation

McKenzie & Liersch (2011). Misunderstanding savings growth: Implications for retirement savings behavior. Journal of Marketing Research, 48, 1-13

Mitchell et al. (2011). Medial prefrontal cortex predicts intertemporal choice. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 1-10.

Final Exam will occur during the time scheduled by the registrar in the normal room we have class.