Example of Aggression

During game 6 of the Western Conference Finals, Sasha Vujacic makes a subtle but obvious move by Elbowing Goran Dragic in the jaw. This type of behavior is typical when frustration levels are high. He was provoked by Goran's words and felt the need to reciprocate back.





Kayla Ueda

Relational Aggression

Last Thursday, we discussed aggression. Very briefly in class, we touched on relational aggression, as portrayed in Mean Girls. Relational aggression is seen more in girls, as it is more emotional than physical. I would argue that relational aggression could be either hostile or instrumental, as it could be for personal gain to make oneself look better, or it could just be to hurt someone else. I'm sure most of you have seen the movie, but here's a clip that shows a couple scenes of relational aggression (ie the 4-way call scene)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbS9O_iDhs8&feature=related

I went to an all girl's high school so I definitely experienced and saw a lot of relational aggression. Once, my "friend" spread nasty rumors about me to some people because she was jealous that the guy she liked started liking me. Girls are so catty. RAWR. the end =]

- a07247206

Aggression

Posted by: Rosario De La Cerda

This video is related to Thursday's lecture on aggression.
The video represents hostile aggression, in which the main character
(Gerald Butler) is purposefully causing pain to those who killed his
young daughter. The video also supports the frustration -aggression theory
because as his goal of bringing down a corrupt justice system is
prevented by his imprisonment, his aggressive behavior towards other victims
increases (continues to kill from inside prison).

Examples

Hi,

I was on youtube and saw this clip. Towards the end of the clip, one of the guys says that he hates fruit and the other boys laugh and say that the guy claims that he's "allergic" to fruit. I guess I just thought of this as an example of internal justification because he claims that he is allergic to fruit when in actually he is not. Here's the clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdPG-yHEBcY

- A09039565

Hostile Aggression

Here is an article about verbal hostile aggression. These football players are trading barbs back and forth about hurting each other the next time they face each other. They are showing aggression via Twitter which shows that aggression can even be done via internet sites.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Twitter-Fight-Shiancoe-doesn-t-like-Sharper-s-t?urn=nfl,244401

Daniel Le
A94030077

Article regarding whether race affects empathy

I found this article and thought it was really interesting. Basically, research has been found that people tend to feel less empathy for people that are of a different race than them. It also says that people who feel the most empathy for their own group feel the least empathy for people of a different group. This relates to the ingroup bias that we talked about during the stereotype lecture!

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/05/27/race.empathy/index.html?hpt=Mid

A08361235

hostile aggression

Homer Simpson chokes Bart a lot but here is one of the many clips. Homer is strangling Bart because he had just done something wrong to make Homer angry. Therefore, Homer is doing this to hurt Bart.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qooC6xoH2c

Julie Quach
A07966019

Weather and Aggression

In this episode of Hey Arnold titled "Heat," (sidenote: this episode pays homage to Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing") Arnold and his friends are suffering from the immense heat of the summer months, and begin feeling uncomfortable and frustrated. They begin taking out their aggression on the Jolly-Olly man, who isn't so innocent because he is taking advantage of the kids by offering very unreasonable prices on his ice cream. This is similar to what we learned in class about summer months having more crimes of aggression.

Skip to the 8:00 mark and we see the kids trying to tip over the Jolly-Olly man's truck.



Eric Ku
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Prisoner's Dilemma

For those of you who didn't see it, at the end of the movie Dark Knight, the Joker set up a real life prisoner's dilemma situation in which two boats had to make a decision. Each boat had a button that if they pushed it before the other boat, they would be saved. Here's a clip from the movie demonstrating it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmUWRJInwhk

altruisn in infants

Infants are seen at an early age to have helping qualities. In this video it shows an infant, at 18 months of age, when they see a clothes pin drop the infant helps the stranger by picking it up and giving it to them. This maybe proof that altruism is a natural quality, brought on by evolution. Since these helping behaviors are seen at such a young age, when the infant has little life experience, altruism could be quality that is in all of us once we are born.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfGAen6QiUE

-Paria Torabi A08581979

altruism in chimpanzees

This article tells of how chimpanzees in the Tai forest found orphaned chimps and took them under their wing and took care of them as if they were their own. The chimps have nothing to gain, but gave themselves and went out of their way to take care of other chimps they found. The chimps adopted the chimps and acted as if they were one their own. Both male and female chimps showed this altruistic quality. This article supports the idea that altruism may come from evolution.

http://www.livescience.com/animals/chimpanzee-adoption-altruism-100126.html

-Paria Torabi A08581979

stereotype about asians

On one episode of Family Guy, Peter stereotypes asians as bad drivers. The cartoon then shows an asian driver that doesnt know how to drive and is oblivious to others around them, and thinks they are the only one on the road.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xOO39wyKK4

-Paria Torabi

Spreading altruism

In class, we discussed different aspects of altruism. The movie Pay it Forward directed by Mimi Leder exemplifies a sort of reversed Social Exchange Theory. In the movie, a young boy comes up with a plan to help the world. This plan starts with him helping three different people in need for no reward, in turn, these three people help another three each and so on. These people exemplify the social exchange theory because in return for receiving assistance from a stranger, they pay the favor on to others. This movie also examines altruism in the world and why people help others despite the lack of materialistic rewards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvbgetKzrmA&feature=related

Angela Wang
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Pygmalion Effect

This video briefly shows an example of the subcomponent of the self-fulfilling prophecy called the Pygmalion effect, which states that the more we expect from people (such as students and employers), the better they perform. Dr. Rosenthal, in the video, says "we teach more to those who we expect more from, we give them more information so that they do are able to do a better job."

Zainab M. Deen
A06563352

Selfless good deed?

Is there such a thing as a selfless good deed?? We discussed in class whether true altruism exists. Joey and Phoebe from "Friends" talk about this very topic.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzQSEoNdGvk


A07311576

When Being Altruistic Backfired?.....

http://video.nytimes.com/video/playlist/world/americas/1194811622209/index.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/world/americas/02orphans.html?ref=world

In lecture today we discussed what would cause people to perform altruistic acts under the bystander intervention model. In this article/video, 10 U.S. citizens from a church group were detained by the Haitian government for trying to take 33 orphaned kids (from the earthquake)across the border w/o proper documentation. The Haitian government believe these individuals were trying to take the kids across for child trafficking purposes. These individuals after noticing the event and seeing that these children were orphaned as an emergency, proceeded to assume responsibility (take them back to U.S. so they can be in a better environment) but this may have faltered on the appropriate form of assistance (not taking the kids across w/proper documentation). When implementing their decision to "help the kids out," what may have been perceived as a non-risk/altruistic scenario of helping children ended up becoming a risk to them as they landed in jail.

Zainab M. Deen
A06563352

Ingratiation in "Desperate Housewives"

In this episode, Katherine and Lynette campaign against each other for the position of President of the Home Owner's Association. During the clip, you notice both Katherine and Lynette agreeing with the views of their neighbors in an attempt to gain their votes. They change their views to comply with those of their neighbors even though they may not necessarily agree with their new, temporary perspectives. Each woman presents herself as an advocate for anything the neighbors may be concerned about. This tactic usually works because people rarely disagree with those who qualify their opinions.



Zarina Sharifi
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Acts of Altruism in the NY Subway system

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/26/nyregion/26train.html?ref=nyregion

As mentioned in class by a fellow student, this article shows various examples of altruistic acts being done by members of society for people who find themselves in trouble on the subway tracks. The article presents 3 examples of strangers helping other strangers who are in danger. Furthermore, it also shows that while there was one "hero" who saved these peoples' lives, people on the sidelines weren't exhibiting the bystander effect as they were doing things like trying to get the conductor's attention to stop the train and alerting the station agent about the situation.

Zainab M. Deen
A06563352

Social Experiment- The Bystander Effect

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIvGIwLcIuw
This is a good example of the Bystander Effect. This video is a Social experiment that was done to see how people would react to seeing a girl being abducted.

Janai Molina
A08504618

"The One Where Pheobe Hates PBS"

This clip from "Friends" argues if there is such a thing as a truly unselfish act - person performing the act receives nothing in return. Joey believes there are no unselfish good deeds, but Pheobe believes there are selfless good deeds. The rest of the episode shows a competition between Joey and Pheobe with Pheobe trying to prove that a truly selfless act exists. She fails to do so.



Jason
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Zimbardo on Abu Ghraib Prison

The prison study in which Philip Zimbardo conducted tested to see if social roles override our own identities to the extent that we truly manifest into the role that we play. It showed how under the right circumstances, good people can do terrible things.

Thirty years after Zimbardo's prison experiment, prison abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq gained media attention in 2004. In Abu Ghraib, their were claims of U.S. soldiers abusing the prisoners. Many might remember the picture of the soldiers smiling in front of a pile of naked Iraqi prisoners. Zimbardo believes that this incident goes back to his prison experiment. Many of these guards were under stress, little supervision and training, and nearly the freedom to conduct their own methods of interrogation.

Here are a few articles on how Zimbardo's prison study connects to the Abu Ghraib prison abuse and perhaps explanations on why soldiers acted the way they did.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/05/08/MNGN76IG761.DTL

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/05/09/power_turns_good_soldiers_into_bad_apples/

(this one is an editorial by Philip Zimbardo in the Boston Globe)

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/06/international/middleeast/06PSYC.html?ex=1399262400&en=91f8144cdf7dd44a&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND

Jason

A08419387

Altruism Motives

This is an article that talks about the shortage of organs needed for transplants. The writer is discussing reasons people do/do not donate, and states that altruism is the MAIN driving force to donating organs. However, as is expected in a news article, it does not discuss anything such as motivation for donating aside from noting that there is NO monetary reward.

http://health.usnews.com/health-news/managing-your-healthcare/treatment/articles/2010/05/25/shortage-of-transplant-organs-spurs-proposals-but-no-solution.html

Natalie Favorite

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Stereotyping/ Gender Roles

This video is a commerical for a magazine that depicts an epic war between men and women. Each gender has their own stereotyped "weapons" to use against the other side. My favorite part of the video is when the women use their small dogs to attack the men. :)


Katrina Tomik
A08084930

Jessica's "Daily Affirmation"

this video is an example of self-justification. She tries to make herself feel better about herself. She states how she is the best, has the best everything, loves everyone, and can do anything. She starts her mornings like this so that she can continue through the day feeling good about herself and her life.

Sandra Abraham

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR3rK0kZFkg

Crowding

Crowded Train - People Video via Noolmusic.com

This is a very common scene in Japan on the train during rush hour. I experienced it first hand and was mostly amused though it can be a little overwhelming. It made me wonder how people deal with personal space in these conditions. I saw very little interaction between people; everyone was either looking up, down, or fixed on a cell phone. When a stop came people forced themselves out as hard as they did coming in, I guess that comes from the need to be in control and not feel stuck on the train. Had it been someone not familiar I can see how being on that train could be terrifying.

Aaron (A08090494)

Personal Space

Here is a commercial I found that illustrates the discussion we had about personal space. It is clear in the commercial that personal space is culturally relevant (like we had learned in class). In the clip, you can see that as Americans, we generally want our personal space and we feel uncomfortable when people are too close to us.




Kathleen Kiang
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Cognitive Dissonance in my world

I recently felt a lot of cognitive dissonance in my world when I had to make a decision on whether or not to buy a certain dress. It was expensive, and I was unsure if I should spend money and buy it. I decided to put the dress on hold at the store, as I looked around to other stores for different and hopefully cheaper dresses. However, I only kept thinking about the one expensive dress and kept comparing every dress to it. The other dresses were simply not as good as the expensive one that I saw earlier. My dissonance was increasing as I really wanted the expensive dress even though I knew I shouldn't spend money. I then convinced myself that it was okay to spend money on a dress since I had not bought anything else that week or spent any type of money. By using a reasoning external factor and changing one of the dissonant cognitions, I helped reduce my dissonance about feeling bad for spending money. Then, the store said that the dress was not returnable. The decision became more permanent (similar to the $2 bet horse racing permanence study), and I soon became more confident and happier in my decision now. My uncomfortable dissonance before did not exist anymore since the decision i had made now was irrevocable and thus more permanent. I was happy with my decision even if I did spend money.

Melissa Karson
A08096719

Cognitive Dissonance on CNN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdiUXbb54qU

This video clearly demonstrates cognitive dissonance. You can see that Cheney immediately becomes very uncomfortable after Wolf asked him the question about his daughter and her pregnancy. This occurred because Cheney does not want to think bad things about him and his family. And so when information was bought to him indicating otherwise, he became very agitated. This video is great!

Dani Maria

Stereotypes and Prejudice

An example of stereotyping and prejudice.


Wendy Garcia
A08398347

Stereotype - Old Spice Commercial

In this commercial, there is a massive stereotype of what "manly" is. We see that with the hair on the chest and also with what the guy is saying about what "real men" do: basketball, recon, etc. This commercial is hilarious.

Dani Maria

Conformity at the Pharmacy

At the pharmacy I work at there is this touchscreen monitor where patients sign for their picked up prescriptions(see photo). After they sign their name indicating they picked up their medications, another screen pops up asking them if they would like patient counseling, which is where the pharmacist counsels the patient about their prescription. I work at the front so I am ringing them up for their medications. With many patients(especially the elderly and others who cannot understand English so well), they look at the screen in the picture with confusion and do not know what to click. They look at me for assistance. If it is a new medication for them, I would tell them to click "Accept". And if it is a refill for them, I tell them to select "Decline". And they will always listen to me and select what I tell them to put.

This reminds me of conformity. It is an example of how informational social influence leads to conformity. The situation to these people is ambiguous. I am the "expert," being behind the counter working in the pharmacy. The situation demands accuracy and is important to each person because it has to do with their medications.

Dani Maria

Raw meat diet

A family in Iowa that on a raw meat diet. I think this video exemplifies group polarity, how one's idea of a healthy diet becomes increasingly extreme. They probably experiences strong social pressure, following their beliefs. Also, cognitive dissonance is also exemplified. It felt by both the family and the wife, about trying each other's diet. In addition, cognitive dissonance probably added slightly to the father's emotional reaction, since he went against his beliefs and his family members are suffering. Perhaps making him less likely to find reason why his family might be sick from cooked food, probably not though.

ChengHsun Chuang

Misatribution of arousal

This is a video explaining the bridge experiment we went over in class. It seems as though there was another part to the experiment that we did not learn about.


Arek Hidirsah
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The effects of love in comparison to an impulse/control disorder

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVpw6CzjM8s

Ke$ha's song "Your love is my drug" shows different ways loves can parallel a drug addiction.

Social Perception on Attractiveness

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2TKMDP/www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_II/Psychologie/Psy_II/beautycheck/english/sozialewahrnehmung/sozialewahrnehmung.htm

This little article gives a perfect insight on how people perceive others according to their attractiveness and the benefits that result from being attractive or unattractive. It also gives examples of what our society believes to be "attractive" and "unattractive".

Cainen Gerety
A08337184

oops

This is miscommunication along with some perceived stereotypes and actor-observer bias. After hearing what Cam said, Gloria (from Columbia the country) probably thought that Cam was a little bit prejudice and attributed that to Cam's personality, but she was not aware of Cam's situation or conversation prior to hearing those words. Those words taken out out of context and Cam's nervousness makes the relationship a little more awkward.



- Victoria Ton

prejudice

stereotyped threat/behavior and discrimination..even by robots.



- Victoria Ton

Importance of Female Attractiveness to Males

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMSy0Ogmwo0

This (video) social experiment shows how men almost fully depend on women's attractiveness when meeting them for the first time. Very funny, but still informational video.

racist/stereotyping commercial

I don't I've seen so many different types of people offended in such a short amount of time before. This guy is crazy!



-Victoria Ton

Ingroup vs. outgroup

"Sneetches are Sneetches. Star-Belly Sneetches are no better or worse than Plain-Belly Sneetches, even though they might think so."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh1qWZWNGGE

-Katrina Tomik; A08084930

Low-Balling

About four years ago, I was in the process of purchasing a new car with my dad. We went to a Ford dealership, found a car that we both liked, and test drove it. We told the car salesman from the beginning that we were only willing to spend a certain amount, and if this dealership couldn't provide us with that price, we were going to look elsewhere. After we test drove the car, the salesman told reassured as that he could give us the car at the price we had negotiated to. It wasn't until my dad was almost done filling out the paperwork that he realized that my monthly car payment was going to be over what the car salesman had originally promised us. When my dad questioned the salesman, the salesman apologized and explained that his supervisor didn't approve the price we had agreed to. My dad asked to speak to the supervisor and the supervisor told us that ultimately that if we didn't purchase the car (at the higher price) someone else was going to. My dad and I immediately left the Ford dealership without purchasing the car. A week later, the same dealership left a message on our answering machine saying that they still had the car at the lower price if we wanted it! I had already purchased a car at that point and was not interested in the low-balling tactics of this Ford dealership. The salesmen were hoping that by having us test drive the car that we would ultimately just look past the higher price on the final paperwork and purchase the car. This real life example, reinforces the fact that low-balling is a tactic that business men try to use with unsuspecting buyers!

-Katrina Tomik; A08084930

I really like this video by Dr. Schreier because it discusses how so
many different cultures' environments can greatly affect peoples'
health in many ways. Some cultures and their traditions may boost
mental health and lower physical health or vise versa. Really, there
are an infinite number of possibilities. And i also like how she
dosent give all the credit to the culture but to the individual as
well. I hope this is informational and helpful :)

Cainen Gerety
A08337184

Counter Factual thinking

I think this is a good example of counter factual thinking. Noble Doss thinks every day what would have happened if he had caught the ball or what could've happened. He's also reminded of not what he did do, but what he didn't do (catch the ball).



Laura Price - ID #A09069210

Normative Social Influence & Conformity in South Park

Full episode: http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/103917



Sanam Rahimizadeh
A07374076

Ingroup vs. Outgroup and a bit of Prejudice

The beginning of this clip - talking about Cartman's love for gingers since he is now a ginger.



Full episode:

First, Cartman hates the gingers. Then, he is turned into a ginger which eventually leads him to lead an attack on everyone who is not a ginger. Also, we see a lot of prejudice and discrimination.

http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/103676

I wish it would let me put the whole episode up, but it won't... odd.



Sanam Rahimizadeh
A07374076

Racism in Cannibalism??

Sorry for the first few seconds with a couple curse words.

Background story: Charlie and Dee ate some meat that they think is human flesh. They are now craving it and want to try out being cannibals.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=43869374





Sanam Rahimizadeh
A07374076

Stereotypes and Prejudice In Action

A touchy subject indeed, brings light to how quick a debate can turn into a battle of prejudices. Watch the video to get the details. David Horowitz and UCSD MSA student Jumanah Imad Albahri exchange some of their opinions in a manner that if offensive to one another and yet after the debate neither has truly been heard or convinced by the other.

My opinion, this isn't the manner in which to present opinions, especially when all it leads to is display of stereotyping and prejudice.

Link to Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPjpqiCxc4o

All different articles and videos can be found on this issue and related on local and national news sites.

Poster: Melissa Suding
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Kids on Race CNN Special

Last night on CNN, they were discussing kids perception on race. While looking at pictures of five cartoons of girls with different skin color, the kids are asked certain questions such as "who is the smart child" and "who is the mean child" which shows that stereotypes and racial prejudice are learned at a young age.

The article also says that there is a special on tonight at 10pm E.T.

Here is the link to CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2010/kids.on.race/

Wendy Garcia
A08398347

Real World Commons Dilemma?

I came across this news article today, and it seems like a classic commons dilemma.

Panera Bread opened a "pay as you can" donations-only location in St. Louis, Missouri.

From the article: "It all depends on whether customers will abide by the motto that hangs above the deli counter: 'Take
what you need, leave your fair share.'"

The restaurant is like a common pool - if everybody is reasonable, the pool of goods will replenish itself (the restaurant will continue to serve donation-only food). However if overused, the pool (the restaurant) will not last. Rationally, the best individual decision would be for people to not pay a dime - they get a meal, and it doesn't cost them anything. However, the individual's most economically beneficial decision will ultimately lead to the closing of the store.

The article finishes with this quote from a lady who has had a successful donations-only restaurant in SLC since 2003:"It somehow stays in balance," Cerrata said. "I think ultimately people are good. They want to contribute."

Anybody for a road trip to St. Louis?

Conrad Bassett-Bouchard
A07522420

Conformity

This is from "How I Met Your Mother" Season 1 Episode 17 "Life Among the Gorillas". Marshall is having trouble in his new work environment because he is not able to get along with his co-workers who are loud and obnoxious. Barney teaches him how to conform into the society of the "gorillas" and he soon gets along with his fellow co-workers, also by being loud and obnoxious like them. By conforming into his new environment, Marshall is no longer made fun of by his co-workers.

This scene reminded me of how we try to conform in order to fit into the group, just as how we learned in lecture about conformity.

The episode can be viewed through here:
http://www.zshare.net/video/609220900f6fc11b/

Monica Marume
A07549777

Realistic Conflict Theory

When resources are limited, there is conflict between groups and results in increased prejudice and discrimination..
The Parks Department is obviously feeling the heat and competition from the Library Department as they try to take a plot of unused land to create a community park whereas the Library Department tries to take that same plot of land to build a new library.




Eve An
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Attractive People Getting Preferential Treatment

Literally this whole 30 Rock episode is about how a guy Liz is dating has been getting preferential treatment all his life, simply because he is attractive. He has been living in a "Bubble" his whole life. The show claims that Dr. Drew (and in the past Jack) have been getting preferential treatment their whole life. But eventually with age, the "bubble" wears off. Unfortuate for Drew, he is completely oblivious to the bubble and thus thinks his "skills" are real. He is convinced he is an expert tennis player, cook, artist, doctor(he doesn't even know the Heimlich Maneuver) ect. all because people have been treating him different because of his looks. The episode deals with Liz trying to decide whether or not to 'pop his bubble or not'.

http://www.wisevid.com/play?v=1tz6A55u6w9c

-A08498474

PS
The link says there is "mature content" but I think thats just because this is an "unofficial link".

flavor of love

I think this video shows that different situations have a great influence on people. These girls think they are attracted to Flavor Flave, but are they really attracted to him or is the show influencing how they feel about him? Do these women really think that he is cute?? I think that by being around him so much, the fact that they were on tv, and that they were competing for the same person, they created a self-fulling prophecy in which they believed he was attractive and that they might fall in love. Sounds ludicrous to me!





- #A07520921

Stereotypes - The Office

An example of the stereotype that all African-Americans have great athletic ability. As Michael Scott, regional manager of Dunder Mifflin Scranton, reacted with astonishment and disappointment at Stanley's lack of basketball ability, his stereotyping, even if not negative, denies Stanley his individuality.




Angela Favela

Bird of Paradise - Sexual Selection

Here's a great example of sexual selection that we talked about in class today. The extravagant looks and dance of the male is used to attract the female so he can reproduce and pass his genes on. This is opposed to natural selection because these traits don't necessarily help him to be a better surviver in the wild. Instead, they're almost purely used to attract females.




Timothy Tsui

Game of Death - Milgram Study

There's a French show that is currently being broadcasted that is a replica of the Milgram Study. Contestants were told to shock a person if they were unable to answer a question. None of the subjects knew they were in a psychology experiment until afterwards. This helped depict the true nature of human beings. Most contestants were willing to shock the person despite knowing the shocks might be lethal.

Timothy Tsui

The Science of a Happy Marriage

This article relates to the interpersonal attraction lecture that we had today. They found that men who carried a specific variation in a gene were less likely to be married or more likely to have marital problems if they chose to wed. Similarly, Professor Larsen mentioned in class that men who have a specific type of vasopressin receptor are more likely to form attachments. The studies in the article also suggest that the brain can be trained to resist temptation and prevent infidelity.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/tracking-the-science-of-commitment/?no_interstitial
Lourd Kettoola
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Importance of Physical Attractiveness

Any House M.D. fans?

So in an episode of House M.D. a few weeks ago there was an episode where Dr. House, Wilson, and Chase go speed dating. House was upset at Wilson for bringing Dr. Chase because he thinks he is too good looking and will ruin their chances. Dr. Chase disagrees so House bets him money that even if Chase acted completely idiotic and stupid with no stability that he will still get more for numbers by the end of the session than either House or Wilson. Obviously, House wins the bet even if Dr. Chase, a surgeon, acts completely otherwise.

This is the only clip I could find, it is not the whole scene but a short glimpse.



Anthony Choi
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Arousal and attraction

On the Bachelor, Jake Pavelka takes Vienna on a date, where they go bungee jumping. There has been experimental evidence (Aron/Dutton) that proves that in a situation that creates arousal, you may mistakenly believe you are more attracted to the person you are with. Is this what sparked the attraction between the two?

Jake has chosen Vienna to be his fiancee...Will they last??






Kayla Ueda

The Danger of Being too Trendy

This "King of the Hill" clip is a funny example of trying way too hard to conform to all of the newest trends and the danger of losing sight of who you really are:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/62510/king-of-the-hill-following-trends

-Monica
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20/20 ABC News: Children & The Psychology of White Supremacy

Here is another example of the racism that children learn from a very young age. This one explores the stereotypes of several different races.


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Cognitive Dissonance

This clip from How I Met Your Mother shows how to reduce cognitive dissonance by quitting smoking which is like the same example from the book. It also shows postdecision dissonance because the group decided to quit smoking but after they started to quit, the wanted to smoke again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm8mTR5EDtg&feature=channel

This clip shows how Barney tries to add new cognitions to justify his smoking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyHRdvJ6GDw&playnext_from=SL

So basically, these two clips pretty much show the cognitive dissonance example of smoking from the book.

Daniel Le
A94030077

Interpersonal Attraction & Love

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150167024615650

Interpersonal Attraction & Love... is not easy.

Aaron
A08090494

Bystander/Stereotyping Effect-"Shopping while Black"

This was a social experiment conducted by ABC showing the bystander effect and stereotyping that goes on in a public place like a boutique. In this experiment, actors are being prejudice against the one black shopper in the store, and the rest of the customers around are not saying/doing anything in the black lady's defense.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAkDHuimJRc

-Roxy Pourmirzaie; A07903681

Fun Theory

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXh2n0aPyw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbEKAwCoCKw

these are volkswagon commercials based on "fun theory". basically, getting people to do things by making it fun to do. in the first video, its taking the stairs instead of the escalator. and in the second, its throwing garbage in actual trash bins instead of the ground.

-Roxy Pourmirzaie; A07903681

"Duncan Principle"

This is a clip from the show Community. The episode is actually called Social Psychology. In this episode/clip, the experiment was about leaving test subjects waiting (for the experiment to start) in a room until they broke down. One guy managed to wait until they told him he had to leave. (26 hours) which apparently messed up Professor Duncan's experiment.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/101204/community-psych-experiment

-Roxy Pourmirzaie; A07903681

Self Concept

The following link is of 2 young girls describing themselves. This exemplifies the progression of self concept and how self concept becomes more concrete with age. They view themselves as a bundle of attributes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foHw3qBXmmU&feature=related

Enjoy!
PID# A07873345

Conformity

I was just watching TV and came across the Dead Poets Society. This clip reminded me of the conformity lecture and thought I would share :)



Anthony Choi
A07060015

Suffering/Self Justification Construal: Real World Example

Compare to the case of the father's fraternity experience in Chapter 1.

I went ziplining with my dad on Catalina Island yesterday. There were 9 people in our group, scheduled to leave at 4:00 PM, and the directions said, arrive 15 minutes early. By 4:00, three members of the group were just arriving. They decided they had to leave and go to the bathroom. When they returned, our group, now even later (4 members had a ferry to catch after the excursion), they were very loud and obnoxious. I found myself getting very annoyed with them; my dad did too.

We got to the first zip, and everyone became very nervous; if you've never ziplined before (as none of our group had), it looks very daunting at first. I was the second person to go, and I really wanted the annoying group members to just shut it, so I could focus on having a good time. After my first zip, I felt much more relaxed. As I saw the annoying group members do their first zip, I realized that they weren't so bad. For the rest of the trip, they were just as annoying, but for me, it was adding to the experience. Afterwards I told my dad about it, and realized that the bonding experience had brought our group closer together. It didn't matter how annoying they were (or how annoying I may have been to them!), once we had all gone through that bonding experience of the first zip, we were all good friends! The bonding experience had clearly explained my changed construal of these people, and it made me want to interact with them more during the trip, despite the persistent annoyingness.

Conrad Bassett-Bouchard
A07522420
cwbasset@ucsd.edu

Stereotyping

In the latest episode of The Simpsons Lisa and another girl is on a debate team and they are debating against each other. However, the judges ignore Lisa because she is a blonde and the other girl is a brunette. And then later on in the episode Lisa changes her hair into being a brunette and then the judges believe that her argument is plausible. She reveals her hair is blonde again and this shocks everyone. This is an example of stereotyping.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/143446/the-simpsons-to-surveil-with-love

Skip to 3:29-4:34 and 17:41-18:37.

Daniel Le
A94030077

stereotypes can give false information

The movie Crash is a great illustration of how racial stereotypes can often lead to the creation of false accusations of particular groups of individuals.





Kayla Ueda

Here's an example of emotion that follows the Schachter-Singer Theory of Emotion. In this episode of The Simpsons, Homer starts putting money into a jar whenever he swears. He tries his best to hold in his emotion, but as you'll see there's a point where you just can't control it anymore.



This follows the "Two-Factor" theory because we have the painful stimulus and arousal, followed by Homer's appraisal of the situation and his colorful show of emotion.

Eric Ku
A07829008

I would definately buy this deodorant

After learning about the different methods used for selling items in commercials and infomercials I have come to the conclusion that this is easily the best use of expertise on a topic to sell a deodorant I have ever seen.






Arek Hidirsah
A07174576

Cognitive Dissonance (warning - it's a little violent)

Banned Racist SONY Commercial

Following Stereotypes of White Women

Leslie is asked by a park ranger to explain how she shot a man in the head while out hunting. When her original story doesn't seem to be making it through to the him, she lists out stereotypes of women as the possible explanation of the incident to the park ranger...




Eve An
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Obeying Authority Figures

April is the only college intern at the Department of Parks and Recreations. The rest are veteran government employees. Because she knows that they are people of higher status than her, therefore holding authority over her, she obeys (though reluctantly) the simplest of tasks that any of the workers could have easily done on their own.




Eve An
A08214447

Post-Decision Dissonance

I remember seeing this commercial a while ago. They have a few different ones for the Mazda 3, but this one conveys post-decision dissonance the best.

Zarina Sharifi

A07877285

Consequences of Normative Pressures and Body Image

Heidi Montag from "The Hills" has been all over the media since her decision to undergo 10 reconstructive surgeries at one time. After watching this video, I'm pretty convinced that she didn't get the plastic surgeries for "inner beauty" as she claims. There are a couple of parts where she talks about other people/the media scrutinizing parts of her face on TV. She chose elective surgery so she could fit in with what society perceives as beautiful. From what I've seen on the show, Heidi didn't have body image problems until she moved to Hollywood. She risked her life to conform to what her immediate environment "expected" of her and put the need for acceptance before her health.

Zarina Sharifi

A07877285

Never say do not eat the twinkie

The power of mild punishment. I guess Bear Grylls never learned about this in social psychology. In this test children played with the toy more after the threat of a severe punishment rather than a mild punishment. The reason is because they have to have less internal justification. In this case the punishment could be death for our comedian Will Ferrell, however after being told by Bear Grylls not to eat the twinkie guess what our comedian does. Start watching from 5:30 to see what happens.

Arek Hidirsah
A07174576

The tyra banks show explored the idea of racial prejudice that is learned at a young age. The kids were shown pictures of a black man and a white man and asked "which man would make a better president?" The kids responded by saying the "white man" would be a better president because he looked "smarter." This is clearly an example of how children of all races have either unconsciously or consciously learned through society/parents/media that the white man is better. However, the show tries to show that these stereotypes can be unlearned as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qevqUau0whQ

Sumita Sharma

A08160572

Impression Management & Ingratiation

The Office is by far the best source of examples for this one...

The Office - Michael's Double | Movies & TV | SPIKE.com

This commercial from Monster.com shows how it can backfire:

Compliance in Friends

Chandler tries to quit the gym, and they pull out the old "Weapons of Influence"

Clarke & Clarke revisited

A replication of the Clarke & Clarke doll experiment in modern times. The results are pretty fascinating.


http://www.understandingrace.org/lived/video/index.html

Conformity

People often conform to injunctive norms to be accepted by those around them...

Bystander Effect

Quite a few people sent in links to this story about an injured person in New York who was left to die on the sidewalk as bystanders walked past:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/26/AR2010042603273.html

Low Balling

A good example of Low Balling:

Talent "agencies" such as John Robert Powers or ExploreTalent.com seem
legitimate but end up charging for their services after roping you in.
They tell you that you're wonderful and beautiful and perfect and give you
a free 7 day trial membership... Then call you on the 8th day saying they
can't submit your profile to a big casting director because you don't have
the $180 full membership.

"Alright, I'll let the casting director know you're not interested...
Unless you want to upgrade to a full membership."

Stereotypes in new situations

When encountering new situations, we often use stereotypes, as shown in this clip from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia":

Stereotypes when rushed for time

This is a great example of people using stereotypes when they're rushed. It's from the recent film "Up in the Air":