Social Psychology Experiments

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Floyd Henry Allport and Social Facilitation

1.  Floyd Henry Allport: The Influence of the Group Upon Association ...

2.  Floyd Henry Allport: Social Psychology

3.  Making social psychology experimental: A conceptual history, 1920 ...

4.  Floyd H. Allport and the Social Psychology - Bryn Mawr College

5.  Floyd Allport | The invisible gardener

6.  Handbook of Psychobiography - Page 230 - Google Books Result

7.  Social Psychology (1924) , by Floyd Henry Allport

  1. Boodman, Sandra G. "Can autistic children be reached through 'facilitated communication'? Scientists say no."Washington Post17 Jan. 1995: WH10.Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://ic.galegroup.com.ezproxy.lapl.org/ic/ovic/PageFinderPortletPage/PageFinderPortletWindow?javax.portlet.action=doSearch&action=1&avoidSearchHistory=true&query=RN+A16374495 (LAPL card required)
  2. "The competitive spirit of not-so-personal training."Globe & Mail[Toronto, Canada] 8 Feb. 2008: L5.Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://ic.galegroup.com.ezproxy.lapl.org/ic/ovic/PageFinderPortletPage/PageFinderPortletWindow?javax.portlet.action=doSearch&action=1&avoidSearchHistory=true&query=RN+A174369765 (LAPL card required)

Milgram Obedience Experiment

1.  Stanley Milgram Redux, TBIYTB — Description of a 2007 iteration of Milgram's experiment at Yale University, published in "The Yale Hippolytic," Jan. 22, 2007. (Internet Archive)

2.  Synthesis of book A faithful synthesis of "Obedience to Authority"– Stanley Milgram

3.  Obedience To Authority — A commentary extracted from 50 Psychology Classics (2007)

4.  A personal account of a participant in the Milgram obedience experiments

5.  Summary and evaluation of the 1963 obedience experiment

6.  The Science of Evil from ABC News Primetime

7.  The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil — Video Lecture of Philip Zimbardo talking about the Milgram Experiment.

8.  Zimbardo, Philip (2007). "When Good People Do Evil". Yale Alumni Magazine. http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2007_01/milgram.html. — Article on the 45th anniversary of the Milgram experiment.

9.  Milgram 1974, Chapter 1 and 15

10.  People 'still willing to torture' BBC

11.  Beyond the Shock Machine, a radio documentary with the people who took part in the experiment. Includes original audio recordings of the experiment

12.  Levine, Robert V. (July–August 2004). "Milgram's Progress". American Scientist. http://www.americanscientist.org/template/BookReviewTypeDetail/assetid/34009;jsessionid=baaeuLYcqpRVHi. Book review of The Man Who Shocked the World

13.  Miller, Arthur G. (1986). The obedience experiments: A case study of controversy in social science. New York: Praeger.

14.  Parker, Ian (Autumn 2000). "Obedience". Granta (71). http://www.granta.com/Magazine/71. Includes an interview with one of Milgram's volunteers, and discusses modern interest in, and scepticism about, the experiment.

15.  Tarnow, Eugen. "Towards the Zero Accident Goal: Assisting the First Officer Monitor and Challenge Captain Errors". Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education and Research 10 (1). http://cogprints.org/4566/.

16.  Tumanov, Vladimir. “Stanley Milgram and Siegfried Lenz: An Analysis of Deutschstunde in the Framework of Social Psychology.” Neophilologus: International Journal of Modern and Mediaeval Language and Literature 91 (1) 2007: 135-148.

17.  Wu, William (June 2003). "Compliance: The Milgram Experiment". Practical Psychology. http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/psychology/compliance.shtml.

Asch Conformity Experiments

1.  Asch, S.E. (1956). Studies of independence and conformity. A minority of one against a unanimous majority. Psychological Monographs, 70(9), 1–70.

2.  Milgram, S. (1961). Nationality and conformity. Scientific America, 205(6).

3.  Pasupathi, M (1999). Age differences in response to conformity pressure for emotional and nonemotional material. Psychology and Aging, 14(1), 170–4.

4.  Eagly, A.H. & Carli, L. (1981). Sex of researchers and sex-typed communications as determinants of sex differences in influenceability: A meta-analysis of social influence studies . Psychological Bulletin, 90(1), 1–20.

5.  Bond, R. & Smith, P.B. (1996). Culture and conformity: A meta-analysis of studies using Asch's (1952b, 1956) line judgement task . Psychological Bulletin, 199(1), 111–137.

6.  "Key Study: Asch's Lines Experiment". http://www.integratedsociopsychology.net/asch_lines_experiment.html. Retrieved December 31, 2012.

Stanford Prison Experiment

1.  Official website

2.  Summary of the experiment

3.  Interviews with guards, prisoners, and researchers in July/August 2011 Stanford Magazine

4.  Zimbardo, P. (2007). From Heavens to Hells to Heroes. In-Mind Magazine.

5.  The official website of the BBC Prison Study

6.  The Experiment (IMDb)— German movie (Das Experiment) from 2001 inspired by the Stanford Experiment

7.  The Lie of the Stanford Prison Experiment— Criticism from Carlo Prescott, ex-con and consultant/assistant for the experiment

8.  The Artificial Prison of the Human Mind Article with Comments.

9.  Philip Zimbardo on Democracy Now! March 30 2007

10.  Philip Zimbardo on The Daily Show, March 2007

11.  BBC news article - 40 years on, with video of Philip Zimbardo

12.  Philip G. Zimbardo Papers (Stanford University Archives)

13.  Zimbardo, P. G (2007) Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. Interview transcript. "Democracy Now!", March 30, 2007. Accessed March 31, 2007.

14.  The Stanford Prison Experiment - A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment Conducted at Stanford University

15.  The Lucifer Effect website

16.  Stanford University News Service - The Standard Prison Experiment

17.  Stanford Prison Experiment - Conclusion

18.  Peters, Thomas, J., Waterman, Robert. H., "In Search of Excellence," 1981. Cf. p.78 and onward.

19.  Carnahan, Thomas; Sam McFarland (2007). "Revisiting the Stanford prison experiment: could participant self-selection have led to the cruelty?". Personality & social psychology bulletin 33 (5): 603–14. http://www.pitt.edu/~bertsch/Carnahan.pdf.

20.  The BBC Prison Study

21.  "A Look at the Original Students of The Third Wave and Their Teacher Ron Jones, 40 Years Later"

Abu Ghraib and the experiment:

1.  BBC News: Is it in anyone to abuse a captive?

2.  BBC News: Why everyone's not a torturer

3.  Ronald Hilton: US soldiers' bad behavior and Stanford Prison Experiment

4.  Slate.com: Situationist Ethics: The Stanford Prison Experiment doesn't explain Abu Ghraib, by William Saletan

5.  IMDb: Untitled Stanford Prison Experiment Project

6.  VIDEO: Talk to MIT re: new book: The Lucifer Effect

7.  Psychology Articles for Undergrad Degree and A-Level Study

BBC Prison Study: The Experiment (2006)

1.  Welcome to the official site for the BBC Prison Study. Home - The ...

2.  The Study - The BBC Prison Study

3.  BBC The Experiment - Prison Study - Podcast from Open University ...

4.  BBC halts 'prison experiment' | UK news | The Guardian

5.  Reicher and Haslam (BBC prison study) - Holah.co.uk

6.  BPS Research Digest: New BBC Prison Study website goes live

7.  Rethinking the psychology of tyranny: The BBC prison study

8.  Background to The Experiment (Haslam & Reicher, 2003)

9.  REICHER AND HASLAM (2006) BBC PRISON STUDY by Lara ...

The Banality of Evil (Hannah Arendt)

1.  Eichmann, the Banality of Evil, and Thinking in Arendt's Thought

2.  The Evil of Banality - Slate Magazine

3.  Arendt, Hannah | philosopher | Banality of evil

4.  On the banality of evil | Culture | DW.DE | 10.01.2013

5.  The Hannah Arendt Papers: Evil: The Crime against Humanity - Part 1

6.  Arendt, Hannah [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]

7.  New Left Project | Articles | The Banality of Evil Revisited: The Case ...

  1. "Banality of evil."National Review12 May 1978: 570.Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://ic.galegroup.com.ezproxy.lapl.org/ic/ovic/PageFinderPortletPage/PageFinderPortletWindow?javax.portlet.action=doSearch&action=1&avoidSearchHistory=true&query=RN+A1106558 (LAPL card required)
  2. Serwer, Adam. "Camp Gitmo: a journalist's first field trip to the infamous prison."The American Prospect21.5 (2010): 6+.Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://ic.galegroup.com.ezproxy.lapl.org/ic/ovic/PageFinderPortletPage/PageFinderPortletWindow?javax.portlet.action=doSearch&action=1&avoidSearchHistory=true&query=RN+A226632453 (LAPL card required)
  3. "The cunning of evil."Spectator21 Apr. 2007.Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://ic.galegroup.com.ezproxy.lapl.org/ic/ovic/PageFinderPortletPage/PageFinderPortletWindow?javax.portlet.action=doSearch&action=1&avoidSearchHistory=true&query=RN+A162778698 (LAPL card required)
  4. Sanchez, Julian. "Eichmann in Hogwarts: Harry Potter and the banality of evil."ReasonNov. 2003: 51+.Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://ic.galegroup.com.ezproxy.lapl.org/ic/ovic/PageFinderPortletPage/PageFinderPortletWindow?javax.portlet.action=doSearch&action=1&avoidSearchHistory=true&query=RN+A109085444 (LAPL card required)
  5. KITFIELD, JAMES. "Humanity's Court."National Journal32.20 (2000): 1508.Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://ic.galegroup.com.ezproxy.lapl.org/ic/ovic/PageFinderPortletPage/PageFinderPortletWindow?javax.portlet.action=doSearch&action=1&avoidSearchHistory=true&query=RN+A62685719 (LAPL card required)
  6. Adler, Jerry. "Just following orders?"Newsweek15 Apr. 1996: 74.Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://ic.galegroup.com.ezproxy.lapl.org/ic/ovic/PageFinderPortletPage/PageFinderPortletWindow?javax.portlet.action=doSearch&action=1&avoidSearchHistory=true&query=RN+A18177713 (LAPL card required)
  7. Miller, Stephen. "A note on the banality of evil."Current411 (1999): 24+.Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://ic.galegroup.com.ezproxy.lapl.org/ic/ovic/PageFinderPortletPage/PageFinderPortletWindow?javax.portlet.action=doSearch&action=1&avoidSearchHistory=true&query=RN+A54422868 (LAPL card required)
  8. Miller, Stephen. "A note on the banality of evil."The Wilson Quarterly22.4 (1998): 54+.Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://ic.galegroup.com.ezproxy.lapl.org/ic/ovic/PageFinderPortletPage/PageFinderPortletWindow?javax.portlet.action=doSearch&action=1&avoidSearchHistory=true&query=RN+A21240864 (LAPL card required)

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

1.  A Theory of Human Motivation, original 1943 article by Maslow.

2.  Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, Teacher's Toolbox. A video overview of Maslow's work by Geoff Petty.

3.  A Theory of Human Motivation: Annotated.

4.  Theory and biography including detailed description and examples of self-actualizers.

5.  Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, Valdosta.

Google Scholar Articles (for all named experiments)

  1. Social facilitation of dominant and subordinate responses
  2. Individual differences in the social facilitation effect: A review and meta-analysis
  3. Social facilitation and impression formation
  4. Automation bias and errors: are crews better than individuals?
  5. Is someone watching me?-consideration of social facilitation effects in human-robot interaction experiments
  6. Now that you know, how do you feel? The milgram experiment and psychologization
  7. A virtual reprise of the Stanley Milgram obedience experiments
  8. Some conditions of obedience and disobedience to authority
  9. The Milgram Paradigm After 35 Years: Some Things We Now Know About Obedience to Authority1
  10. Attribution of Responsibility and Trust in the Milgram Obedience Experiment1
  11. The Milgram obedience experiment: Support for a cognitive view of defensive attribution
  12. Identifying systematic disobedience in Milgram's obedience experiments: A meta-analytic review
  13. The perils of obedience
  14. Obedience in retrospect
  15. Opinions and social pressure
  16. Studies of independence and conformity: I. A minority of one against a unanimous majority
  17. Shame and conformity: The deference-emotion system (JSTOR login required)
  18. The Asch conformity effect: A study in Kuwait
  19. Paternalism and psychology
  20. Social norms, conformity, and compliance
  21. A nonconformist account of the Asch experiments: Values, pragmatics, and moral dilemmas
  22. Social influence: Compliance and conformity
  23. Group size and conformity
  24. On the ethics of intervention in human psychological research: With special reference to the Stanford prison experiment
  25. Stanford Prison Experiment
  26. Reflections on the Stanford prison experiment: Genesis, transformations, consequences
  27. Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment: Could participant self-selection have led to the cruelty?
  28. Revisiting the stanford prison experiment: A lesson in the power of the situation
  29. The Lucifer effect: Understanding how good people turn evil
  30. Situationist Ethics: The Stanford Prison Experiment Doesn't Explain Abu Ghraib
  31. The Psychology of Evil
  32. On rethinking the psychology of tyranny: the BBC prison study
  33. Beyond the banality of evil: Three dynamics of an interactionist social psychology of tyranny
  34. Evil is more than banal: Situationism and the concept of evil
  35. The roots of evil: Social conditions, culture, personality, and basic human needs
  36. Making a Virtue of Evil: A Five‐Step Social Identity Model of the Development of Collective Hate
  37. The banality of evil
  38. The banality of simulated evil: designing ethical gameplay

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Allford Social Facilitation
  1. Parkovnick, Sam. "Contextualizing Floyd Allports's Social Psychology." Journal Of The History Of The Behavioral Sciences 36.4 (2000): 429-441. Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=11788658&site=ehost-live
  2. Barenbaum, Nicole B. "How Social Was Personality? The Allports' “Connection” Of Social And Personality Psychology." Journal Of The History Of The Behavioral Sciences 36.4 (2000): 471-487. Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=11788654&site=ehost-live
  3. Greenwood, John D. "Individualism And The Social In Early American Social Psychology." Journal Of The History Of The Behavioral Sciences 36.4 (2000): 443-455. Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=11788657&site=ehost-live
  4. Lubek, Ian. "Understanding And Using The History Of Social Psychology." Journal Of The History Of The Behavioral Sciences 36.4 (2000): 319-328. Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=11788663&site=ehost-live
  5. Danziger, Kurt. "Making Social Psychology Experimental: A Conceptual History, 1920–1970." Journal Of The History Of The Behavioral Sciences 36.4 (2000): 329-347. Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=11788665&site=ehost-live
Asch Conformity Experiment
  1. Mori, Kazuo, and Miho Arai. "No Need To Fake It: Reproduction Of The Asch Experiment Without Confederates." International Journal Of Psychology 45.5 (2010): 390-397. Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=54302408&site=ehost-live
  2. Lamb, Theodore A., and Majeed Alsikafi. "Conformity In The Asch Experiment: Inner-Other Directedness And The 'Defiant Subject'." Social Behavior & Personality: An International Journal 8.1 (1980): 13. Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=8651414&site=ehost-live
  3. Amir, Taha. "The Asch Conformity Effect: A Study In Kuwait." Social Behavior & Personality: An International Journal 12.2 (1984): 187-190. Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=12696671&site=ehost-live
  4. Hodges, Bert H., and Anne L. Geyer. "A Nonconformist Account Of The Asch Experiments: Values, Pragmatics, And Moral Dilemmas." Personality & Social Psychology Review (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates) 10.1 (2006): 2-19. Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=19493676&site=ehost-live
  5. Misra, Sasi. "Instability In Self-Evaluation, Conformity, And Affiliation." Journal Of Personality 41.3 (1973): 361-375. Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=8969962&site=ehost-live
  6. Sheehan, Joseph J. "Conformity Prior To The Emergence Of A Group Norm." Journal Of Psychology 103.1 (1979): 121. Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=5183187&site=ehost-live
  7. Neto, Félix. "Conformity And Independence Revisited." Social Behavior & Personality: An International Journal 23.3 (1995): 217. Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=9331949&site=ehost-live
  8. Levine, John M. "Solomon Asch's Legacy For Group Research." Personality & Social Psychology Review (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates) 3.4 (1999): 358. Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=3181395&site=ehost-live
  9. Weinheimer, Sidney. "Egocentrism And Social Influence In Children." Child Development 43.2 (1972): 567-578. Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=12107834&site=ehost-live
Milgram Obedience Experiments
  1. Navarick, Douglas J. "Historical Psychology And The Milgram Paradigm: Tests Of An Experimentally Derived Model Of Defiance Using Accounts Of Massacres By Nazi Reserve Police Battalion 101." Psychological Record 62.1 (2012): 133-154. Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=71612145&site=ehost-live
  2. Reicher, Stephen, and S. Alexander Haslam. "After Shock? Towards A Social Identity Explanation Of The Milgram 'Obedience' Studies." British Journal Of Social Psychology 50.1 (2011): 163-169. Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=64995520&site=ehost-live
  3. Kurt S. Larsen, et al. "Approval Seeking, Situational Pressures, And The Willingness To Administer Shock To A Victim." Journal Of Social Psychology 99.1 (1976): 87. Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=5393471&site=ehost-live
  4. Jared Richard Legare, et al. "Self And Other Obedience Estimates: Biases And Moderators." Journal Of Social Psychology 142.6 (2002): 677-689. Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=8559152&site=ehost-live
  5. Shirley Radlove, et al. "The Prediction And Perception Of Obedience To Authority." Journal Of Personality 42.1 (1974): 23-42. Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=8969562&site=ehost-live
Stanford Prison Experiment
  1. ALKADRY, MOHAMAD G., and MATTHEW T. WITT. "Abu Ghraib And The Normalization Of Torture And Hate." Public Integrity 11.2 (2009): 135-153. Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=36980798&site=ehost-live
  2. Zimbardo, Philip G. "On Rethinking The Psychology Of Tyranny: The BBC Prison Study." British Journal Of Social Psychology 45.1 (2006): 47-53. Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=21118521&site=ehost-live
  3. Slavich, George M. "On 50 Years Of Giving Psychology Away: An Interview With Philip Zimbardo." Teaching Of Psychology 36.4 (2009): 278-284. Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=44651903&site=ehost-live
  4. Zimbardo, Philip. "Recollections Of A Social Psychologist's Career: An Interview With Dr. Philip Zimbardo." Journal Of Social Behavior & Personality 14.1 (1999): 1-22. Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=2142571&site=ehost-live
  5. Zimbardo, Philip G. "Thoughts On Psychologists, Ethics, And The Use Of Torture In Interrogations: Don't Ignore Varying Roles And Complexities." Analyses Of Social Issues & Public Policy 7.1 (2007): 65-73. Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Mar. 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=27785106&site=ehost-live

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