Video Lectures
Lecture 1 - Overview of Social Psychology
- What is social psychology? What do social psychologists study?
- How is social psychology different from other fields of study? Why should we learn about social psychology?
- How was the field of social psychology established? How has the field changed over time?
- What is trending in the field of social psychology?
Lecture 2 - Research Methods in Social Psychology
- What is the scientific method? Why is understanding research methods important?
- What is descriptive research?
- What is correlational research?
- What is experimental research?
- What is a meta-analysis?
Lecture 3 - Social Self
- What is a self-concept? How do we develop a self-concept?
- What is self-esteem? How is it determined?
- What is self-regulation?
- How do we enhance our self-esteem?
- What is self-presentation?
Lecture 4 - Perception of Others
- What is social perception?
- How do our observations of the social context impact our perceptions of others?
- How do we make attributions about others’ behaviors?
- What attributional biases impact our judgments of others?
- How do we form impressions of others?
- What confirmation biases impact our impressions of others?
Lecture 5 - Stereotypes, Prejudice, & Discrimination
- What is a stereotype? What is prejudice? What is discrimination?
- What is racism? What is sexism?
- What is stereotype threat?
- How do we measure stereotypes?
- How do stereotypes form? How do intergroup conflict and social identity play a role?
- How do stereotypes distort our perceptions?
- How can we minimize the impact of stereotypes?
Lecture 6 - Attitudes
- What are attitudes?
- How do attitudes form?
- How are attitudes measured?
- Do our attitudes predict our behavior?
- How are we persuaded to change our attitudes and behavior?
- What is cognitive dissonance? How does it impact our attitudes and behaviors?
Lecture 7 - Social Influence
- What is social influence?
- What is conformity? Why do we conform? What social factors pressure us to conform?
- What is compliance? Why do we comply?
- What is obedience? Why do we obey? Why do we disobey?
- Who has the greatest influence on us?
- How can we resist attempts to influence us?
Lecture 8 - Group Processes
- What is a group? Why do we join groups?
- How are group members socialized?
- How does the presence of others impact us? What is social facilitation, social loafing, and deindividuation?
- Do groups outperform individuals? What is brainstorming, group polarization, groupthink, and biased sampling?
- What is a social dilemma? How can we address social dilemmas?
Lecture 9 - Attraction & Close Relationships
- Why do we need to affiliate?
- What factors lead us to be attracted to someone?
- How do men and women differ in mate selection?
- What is an intimate relationship?
- How does attraction transform into intimate relationships?
- What is love?
- What does the research say about various relationship issues?
Lecture 10 - Helping Behavior
- What are prosocial behaviors?
- Why do we help others?
- Do we help for selfish or selfless reasons?
- Who helps? Whom do we help?
- When do we help?
Lecture 11 - Aggressive Behavior
- What is aggression?
- What motivates aggressive behavior?
- Are we born to be aggressive, or do we learn to be aggressive?
- How do we differ in our aggressive tendencies?
- How does media violence affect aggression?
- How can we reduce aggression?
Lecture 12 - Social Psychology in the Legal System
- What does the criminal justice system look like in the USA?
- How reliable is eyewitness testimony? How can we increase the accuracy of eyewitness testimony?
- How are suspects interviewed? How can we reduce the rate of false confessions?
- How are juries selected?
- What factors influence a jury’s decision-making process? How can we build less biased juries?
- How do juries deliberate?
- Is our legal system just?