Syllabus
(updated 9/3/03)
Graduate Seminar on Stereotypes, Fall 2003
16:830:612:02

Professor Lee Jussim

Thursdays, 1:30-4:10
Location: 605 Tillett

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SECTION I:
CLASSIC AND CURRENT VIEWS EMPHASIZING THE
INACCURATE, IRRATIONAL AND DAMAGING
ASPECTS OF STEREOTYPES

THE CLASSIC CASE FOR INACCURACY, IRRATIONALITY, AND BIAS  (Week 2)
Allport, G. W.  (1958).  The nature of prejudice (2nd edition).  Chapters 1, 2, 4, 10, and 12
(pp.  3-27; 47-65; 161-200).

Katz, D. & Braly, K. (1933).  Racial stereotypes of one hundred college students. 
Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 28, 280-290.

LaPierre, R. T. (1936).  Type-rationalizations of group antipathy.  Social Forces, 15, 232-237.


THE CLASSIC CASE FOR INACCURACY, IRRATIONALITY, AND BIAS II:
MODERN PERSPECTIVES ON BELIEFS ABOUT GROUPS (week 3)
American Psychological Association. (1991).  In the Supreme Court of the United States: Price Waterhouse v. Ann B. Hopkins (Amicus curiae brief).  American Psychologist, 46, 1061-1070.

Jost, J. T., & Banaji, M. R. (1994).  The role of stereotyping in system-justification and
the production of false consciousness.  British Journal of Social Psychology, 33, 1-27.

Wilder, D.  A.  (1986).  Social categorization: Implications for creation and reduction of integroup bias. 
Advances in experimental social psychology, 19, 291-355.

THE CLASSIC CASE FOR INACCURACY, IRRATIONALITY, AND BIAS II:
MODERN PERSPECTIVES ON PERSON PERCEPTION (week 4)
Fiske, S. T., & Neuberg, S. L. (1990).  A continuum of impression formation, from category-based
to individuating processes: Influences of information and motivation on attention and interpretation. 
Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 23, 1-74.
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Rosenhan, D. L. (1973).  On being sane in insane places.  Science, 179, 250-258.

Jussim, L.  (2003).  Expectancy Effects on Perception, Memory, and Information-Seeking. 
Chapter 5 to appear in Interpersonal Expectancies.


IT GETS WORSE: STEREOTYPES AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECIES (week 5)
Merton, R. K. (1948).  The self-fulfilling prophecy.  Antioch Review, 8, 193-210.

Snyder, M., Tanke, E. D., & Berscheid, E. (1977).  Social perception and interpersonal behavior:
On the self-fulfilling nature of social stereotypes.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 35, 656-666.

Word, C. O., Zanna, M. P., & Cooper, J. (1974).  The nonverbal mediation of self-fulfilling
prophecies in interracial interaction.  Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 10, 109-120.

Rosenthal, R. & Jacobson, L. F. (1968b).  Teacher Expectations for the Disadvantaged. 
Scientific American, 218, 19-23.
       

SECTION II:

CHALLENGES TO THE CLASSIC VIEW.
EVIDENCE THAT STEREOTYPES ARE OFTEN
 ACCURATE AND REFLECT MORE THAN CAUSE INEQUALITIES

DOUBTS ABOUT THE CLASSIC VIEW (week 6)       
Fox, R.  (1991).  Prejudice and the unfinished mind.  Psychological Inquiry, 3, 137-152.
                           
Schneider, D.  J.  Modern stereotype research: Unfinished business.  Pp. 419-453 in
C.  N.  Macrae, C.  Stangor, & M.  Hewstone (eds),
Stereotypes and stereotyping.  New York: The Guilford Press. 
               
Jussim, L., McCauley, C. R., & Lee, Y. T. (1995).  Why study stereotype accuracy
and inaccuracy?  In Lee, Y. T., Jussim, L., & McCauley, C. R. (Eds.),
Stereotype accuracy: Toward appreciating group differences (pp. 3-27).
 Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.


ARE ALL GROUPS THE SAME?  (week 7)           
U.S. Census

Allport, G. W.  (1958).  The nature of prejudice (2nd edition).  Chapters 6-9, pp.  83-158).
   
LaFree, G.  (1999).  Race and crime trends in the United States, 1946-1990. 
Pp.  364-373, in C. G.  Ellison & W.  A.  Martin (eds.),  Race and ethnic relations in
the United States.  Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing Company. 
       
Herrnstein, R.  J., & Murray, C.  (1994).   Poverty.  Chapter 5 in The bell curve.  NY: The Free Press.   
       
Herrnstein, R.  J., & Murray, C.  (1994).  Schooling.  Chapter 6 in The bell curve.  NY: The Free Press.   


FRONTAL ASSAULT I: ACCURACY OF BELIEFS IN GROUP DIFFERENCES (week 8)
McCauley, C., & Stitt, C. L. (1978).  An individual and quantitative measure of stereotypes.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 36, 929-940.

Swim, J. K. (1994).  Perceived versus meta-analytic effect sizes: An assessment of the
accuracy of gender stereotypes.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66, 21-36.

Ryan, C.  S.  (2002).  Stereotype accuracy.  European Review of Social Psychology, 13, 75-109.

         
FRONTAL ASSAULT II: LOTS OF ACCURACY AND MERE HINTS AND WHISPERS
OF  ITSY WITSY TEENIE WEENIE WITTLE BABY BIASES IN PERSON PERCEPTION
(GIVE THAT CUTE LITTLE BIAS A BA-BA); OR,
THE UTTER FAILURE OF STEREOTYPES TO CAUSE PEOPLE
TO IGNORE INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES (week 9)
Jussim, L.  (2003).  The Less Than Awesome Power of Expectations to Bias
Perception and Judgment.  Chapter 9 to appear in Interpersonal Expectancies.

Locksley, A., Borgida, E., Brekke, N., & Hepburn, C. (1980).  Sex stereotypes and social judgment. 
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 39, 821-831.

Madon, S. J.,  Jussim, L., Keiper, S., Eccles, J., Smith, A., & Palumbo, P. (1998). 
The accuracy and power of sex, social class and ethnic stereotypes:
Naturalistic studies in person perception.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin,  24, 1304-1318.
                               
Brodt, S. E., & Ross, L. D.  (1998).  The role of stereotyping in overconfident
social prediction.  Social Cognition, 16, 225-252.
   

SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECIES: WEAK, FRAGILE, AND FLEETING (week 10)
Jussim, L.  (2003).  On the Limited Nature of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies:  Considerations Based on Common Sense, Daily Life, and a Critical Evaluation of the Early Classic Experiments.  Chapter Six, to appear in Interpersonal Expectancies.

Chapman, G, & McCauley, C.  (1993).  Early career achievements of National Science Foundation Graduate Fellows and Honorable Mentions.  Is Pygmalion at work on NSF winners?  Journal of Applied Psychology, 78, 815-820.

Jussim, L.  (2003).  Teacher expectations: Knowns and unknowns, resolved and unresolved controversies. 
Manuscript submitted for publication.
                   

INEQUALITY WITH AND WITHOUT EVIL STEREOTYPERS    (week 11)
Braddock, J. H. & McPartland, J. M. (1987).  How minorities continue to be
excluded from equal employment opportunities: Research on
labor market and institutional barriers.  Journal of Social Issues, 43, 5-40.

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.  (1998).   The Problem: Discrimination. 
In P.S. Rothenberg (ed.), Race, class, and gender in the United States.  New York: St.  Martin’s Press.

Steele, C.  (1997).  A threat in the air: How stereotypes shape intellectual identity and performance. 
American Psychologist, 52, 613-629.           

Shih, M., Pittinsky, T. L., & Ambady, N.  (1999).  Stereotype susceptibility:
Identity salience and shifts in quantitative performance.  Psychological Science, 10, 80-83.
                               
   
BALANCED PERSPECTIVES ON STEREOTYPES (week 12)
Sniderman, P.  M., & Piazza, T.  (1999).  Pictures in the mind.  Pp.  230-237 in C. G. 
Ellison & W.  A.  Martin (eds.), Race and ethnic relations in the United States. 
Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing Company. 
           
Biernat, M., & Manis, M.  (1994).  Shifting standards and stereotype-based judgments. 
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66, 5-20.

Jussim, L.  (1991).  Social perception and social reality:
A reflection-construction model.  Psychological Review, 98, 54-73.

Kunda, Z., & Thagard, P.  (1996).  Forming impressions from stereotypes, traits, and behaviors:
A parallel-constraint-satisfaction theory.  Psychological Review, 103, 284-308.


GRADING:  
Short article summaries: 10%
Discussion leading: 60%
Participation: 30%