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Social Psychology Department of Psychology New York University (PSYCH-UA 32 – Fall 2020) Instructor Professor Eric Knowles 6 Washington Place (Meyer) 502 Virtual office hours: M 2-4pm

When & Where M&W 11am-12:15pm Location: Online

Teaching Assistants & Recitations Shahrzad Goudarzi [email protected] Office hours: W 2-4pm

Fiona Adjei Boateng [email protected] Office hours: Th 2-4pm

Sydney Klein [email protected] Office hours: Tu 12-2pm

Recitations: M 2-3:15 W 12:30-1:45

Recitations: M 12:30-1:45 Tu 3:30-4:45

Recitations: Th 11-12:15 Th 12:30-12:45

Course Description In 328 B.C., Aristotle wrote that “man [sic ] is by nature a social animal.” Since then, countless philosophers, poets, and stand-up comedians have mused about the intricacies of human social behavior. This course will give you a sampling of the core theories and topics of modern social psychology, including research on conformity and obedience, altruism and aggression, attitude formation and change, and interpersonal and intergroup perception. The goal of the course is to give you a broader understanding of how deeply our behavior is influenced by our social surroundings and how a scientific approach to explaining human social behavior can provide insight into the causes of (and perhaps even some cures for) a variety of current social problems. Course Materials Textbook: Myers & Twenge, Social Psychology  13th Edition with CONNECT Access Card. McGraw Hill CONNECT website: http://connect.mheducation.com/class/e-knowles-nyu-fall-2020 See last page of syllabus for information on CONNECT registration and technical assistance. The e-book version of the textbook is available on the CONNECT website along with the mandatory SmartBook adaptive reading assignments. Tech support is available 24/7, so please use this resource before contacting the Professors or TAs for assistance with the website.

Lectures Lectures will be remote via Zoom. All have been prescheduled, with Zoom links accessible through the Classes website. Simply log on before each class meeting and look for the link for today’s date. Attendance is required. Recitations Recitations will also be remote via Zoom. Your TA has set up a Classes site for your recitation cohort; here you will find prescheduled Zoom links. Log on before each recitation meeting and look for the link for today’s day. Recitations will include a variety of activities that will serve to enhance your experience in the course. These may include activities from the CONNECT website, journal readings, review of lectures and textbook materials, and pre-exam reviews. Please note: In order to maintain a consistent schedule of topics across recitation cohorts, the following exceptions to recitation meeting times have been implemented:

 ill meet. ● During the first week of classes, only  the Wednesday recitation w ● During the second week of classes, Monday recitations will meet on Wednesday and Wednesday recitations will not meet (this is due to NYU legislative day). Tuesday and Thursday recitations will meet as normal. ● Starting the third week all recitations, all recitations will meet as scheduled. ● During Thanksgiving week, no recitations  will meet. Office Hours Prof. Knowles’ office hours are Monday from 1-3pm. He will preschedule Zoom links available via the Classes website, and will use the “waiting room” feature to meet with students on a first-come, first-served basis. The TAs will also hold office hours in a similar fashion, although at the time of this writing their schedules are TBD. Attending Class From Abroad We understand that some students may need to attend class from distant time zones. For these students, logging on to the “live” lectures and recitations may not possible. Please note the following policy addressing this situation:

● Students who cannot attend class synchronously will not be penalized. ● Asynchronous students are expected to watch the recorded lectures and recitation sessions. ● Asynchronous students must notify their TAs before the first recitation that will not be attending live class meetings. ● For recitations in which a journal article is critiqued, your ability to discuss the article in recitation forms part of your participation grade. In lieu of live participation, please submit a short reaction paragraph to your TA prior to the session in which the article is to be discussed. Your TA will provide more details about this requirement. Political Risk We are committed to helping students who may be facing political risk to participate in their classes in ways that are as safe as possible. We encourage students based in any place that monitors Internet use for political content to carefully consider how you can and will participate. If you have any further concerns about political safety, please email Prof. Knowles ([email protected]) asking for a consultation, and we will find a way to discuss the situation as safely as we can. Accommodations Academic accommodations are available for students with disabilities. The Moses Center for Student Accessibility website is www.nyu.edu/csd. Please contact the Moses Center (212-998-4980 or [email protected]) for further information. Students who are requesting academic accommodations are advised to reach out to the Moses Center as early as possible in the semester for assistance. Academic Integrity Academic integrity means that the work you submit is original. Obviously, bringing answers into an examination or copying all or part of a paper straight from a book, the Internet, or a fellow student is a violation of this principle. But there are other forms of cheating or plagiarizing which are just as serious—for example, presenting an oral report drawn without attribution from other sources (oral or written); writing a sentence or paragraph which, despite being in different words, expresses someone else’s ideas without a reference to the source of the ideas; or submitting essentially the same paper in two different courses (unless both instructors have given their permission in advance). Receiving or giving help on a take-home paper, examination, or quiz is also cheating, unless expressly permitted by the instructor (as in collaborative projects). For more information see h ttps://cas.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/cas/academic-integrity.html.

Assignments SmartBook. For each chapter in the textbook, there is a corresponding SmartBook adaptive reading assignment. These assignments are mandatory. SmartBook enables you to read the textbook online and answer questions about the material. You may either read the chapter in its entirety and then complete the questions or answer the questions as you read. If you get questions wrong, SmartBook will direct you to the relevant portion of the text for further review. Note that, while completion of the SmartBook assignments constitutes 15% of your grade, your performance on the questions will not be graded—SmartBook is meant to be a learning aid and not an assessment instrument. Critique paper. You will write a 2-page, double-spaced critique of an original research paper in social psychology, due 12/2; you will be given a choice of articles to critique. More information about the critique paper will be forthcoming in recitations. Research participation. This course also includes a research participation requirement, consisting of either participating in 2 hours of studies in the department or writing a paper on methodology. You will get an Incomplete if you don’t do this requirement. You may also do 1 additional hour of participation for 1% credit. It is perfectly possible to get an A without this extra research credit, since it counts only 1% and As run from a course grade of 93% to 100%. Details are available at h ttp://www.psych.nyu.edu/research/required.html. Please note that after two unexcused no-shows for studies you’ve signed up for, you will be locked out of research participation (i.e., from the Sona system) so you cannot sign up for more studies, until you either reschedule the studies or get excused, or write the paper on methodology. Be sure that the hours that you earn on Sona are credited to the course(s) you want them to be credited to. You may “Reassign” credits on Sona. Exams There will be 2 exams—an open-book remote midterm on 10/28 during the normal class time and final on 12/18 from 12-1:50pm (also open-book and remote TBD)—each covering a different portion of the course materials. The final is non-cumulative and can therefore be considered a second midterm. Tests will consist of multiple-choice questions. All material covered in the lecture, textbook, and recitation is fair game on the exams. Except in very extreme, documented circumstances, make-up exams will not be given. Grading Grades will be based on the points you earn. A curve will not be used in this course, and therefore the points that other students earn will not affect your grade. ● Midterm: ● Final:

30% 30%

● SmartBook assignments: 15% ● Research critique 15% ● Recitation attendance/participation: 10% Grade brackets: A: 93-100 B+: 87-89 B-: 80-82 C: 73-76 D+: 67-69 F: 59 and below

A-: B: C+: C-: D:

90-92 83-86 77-79 70-72 60-66

Course Schedule Lecture Date

Topic

Reading Due Part 1: Groundwork

9/2 9/9

1. What is social psychology? 2. How do you “do” social psychology?

Text Ch. 1

Part 2: Basic Ingredients 9/14 9/16 9/21 9/23 9/28 9/30

3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

The self in a social world The self in a social world (cont’d) Social beliefs and judgments Social beliefs and judgments (cont’d) Behavior and attitudes Behavior and attitudes (cont’d)

Text Ch. 2 Text Ch. 3 Text Ch. 4

Part 3: Webs of Influence 10/5 10/7 10/12 10/14 10/19 10/21 10/26

9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

10/28

Genes, culture, and gender Genes, culture, and gender (cont’d) Conformity and obedience Conformity and obedience (cont’d) Persuasion Persuasion (cont’d) Group influence

Text Ch. 5 Text Ch. 6 Text Ch. 7 Text Ch. 8

** MIDTERM (in class) ** Part 4: Coming Together and Apart

11/9 11/11 11/16 11/18 11/23 11/25 11/30 12/2

16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23.

12/7 12/9

24. Conflict and peacemaking 25. Conflict and peacemaking (cont’d)

12/18, 12-1:50pm

Prejudice Prejudice (cont’d) Aggression Aggression (cont’d) Attraction and intimacy Attraction and intimacy (cont’d) Helping Helping (cont’d)

** FINAL EXAM **

Note: Dates in bold reflect new schedule as of 11/8/20.

Text Ch. 9 Text Ch. 10 Text Ch. 11 Text Ch. 12 Paper due (upload to Classes) Text Ch. 13...