Honors Seminar on
The Social Psychology of Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination
Fall, 2003

Course  12:090:283:01.
Professor Lee Jussim

MTh 3 in Lucy Stone B205 (Livingston Campus)

Syllabus
(updated, 10/6/03)

IN CLASS MIDTERM ON MONDAY, 10/20/03.  Full period.
10 t/f (20%), 10 short answer (20%), 2 Essay (30% each essay; 60% total).  

NOTE: ALL READINGS ARE AVAILABLE ON ELECTRONIC
RESERVE.  IF YOU ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH ELECTRONIC
RESERVE, CLICK HERE FOR INSTRUCTIONS

THE READINGS ARE IN THE ORDER WE WILL DISCUSS THEM.  SUMMARIES
ARE REQUIRED FOUR ARTICLES IN ADVANCE.  SO, FOUR
SUMMARIES ARE REQUIRED FOR MONDAY, 9/8.  

IF WE ONLY COVER TWO OF THEM ON 9/8, THEN SUMMARIES FOR
THE NEXT TWO READINGS (ALLPORT & LAPIERE) WOULD BE DUE
ON THURSDAY, 9/11.  

IT IS YOUR JOB TO STAY AHEAD.   SUMMARIES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED
IF THEY ARE HANDED IN AFTER THE ARTICLE HAS BEEN DISCUSSED
IN CLASS.

NEW SYLLABUS UPDATE:
READINGS **REMOVED** FROM THE REQUIRED READING
LIST WILL APPEAR IN red in very small boldface italic type.  You are NOT required
to read those articles.

I.  The Good Olde Days: Classic Cases of Hatred, Discrimination, and Oppression
Wright, R. (1998).  The ethics of living Jim Crow: An autobiographical sketch.  Pp 23-32 in P.S. Rothenberg (ed), Race, class, and gender in the United States, 4th edition.  New York: St. Martin’s Press. (Richard Wright died in 1960; I am not sure of the original source; possibly “Native Son”).

Du Bois, W. E. B. (1998).  The Black Codes.  Pp 408-416 in P.S. Rothenberg (ed), Race, class, and gender in the United States, 4th edition.  New York: St. Martin’s Press. (W.E.B. Du Bois died in 1963 and I have no idea where this originated from).

Goldhagen,  D. J. (1996).  The evolution of eliminationist antisemitism in modern Germany, Chapter 2 in Hitler's willing executioners.  NY: Vintage books.

Bem, S. L., & Bem, D. J. (1970).  Case study of a nonconscious ideology: Training the woman to know her place.  Pp 89-99 in D. J. Bem, Beliefs, attitudes, and human affairs, Monterey, CA: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company.

II.  Are Stereotypes Mean & Evil, Part I?  The Case for Inaccuracy, Irrationality, and Bias
Allport, G.  (1954).  Chapters 1, 2, 4, 10, and 12 in The nature of prejudice.  Garden City, New York: Doubleday Anchor Books.

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

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.

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

III.  Are Stereotypes Mean & Evil, Part II?  The Case for Accuracy
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.

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.

McCauley, C., & Stitt, C. L. (1978).  An individual and quantitative measure of stereotypes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 36, 929-940.

Jussim, L.  (2003).  Accuracy.  Selection from a manuscript submitted for publication.
Click here for a link to the cut off section of this paper.

IV.  Are Stereotypes Mean & Evil, Part III?  Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Bias In Person Perception
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.

V.  Prejudice, “I am not prejudiced, they really are inferior and/or despicable”    
Nelson, T.  (2002).  The prejudiced personality.  In The psychology of prejudice.  Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

Nelson, T.  (2002).  Old-fashioned versus modern racism.  In The psychology of prejudice.  Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

Nelson, T.  (2002).  Sexism.  In The psychology of prejudice.  Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

Fox, R.  (1991).  Prejudice and the unfinished mind.  Psychological Inquiry, 3, 137-152.

Greenwald., A. G., McGhee., D. E., & Schwartz, J. K. L. (1998). Measuring individual differences in implicit cognition: The Implicit Association Test. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1464-1480.

Brewer, M.  B.  (2001).  Ingroup identification and intergroup conflict.  Pp. 17-41 in R. D.  Ashmore, L.  Jussim, & D.  Wilder (eds), Social identity, intergroup conflict, and conflict reduction.  New York: Oxford University Press.

Movie: Killing Us Softly.


VI.  Admitting prejudice:  “I do not even notice the race of a person when I first meet them.”
Blackpeopleloveus.com

http://scils.rutgers.edu/~weyang/ejournal/volume04/walkjuss/walkjuss.htm
                    
VII.  Discrimination, Inequality and Some Sources
U.S. Census 
www.census.gov

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.

VIII.  Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: The Convergence of Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination to Create Inequalities
 Merton, R. K. (1948).  The self-fulfilling prophecy.  Antioch Review, 8, 193-210.

Jussim, L.  (2003).  Self-Fulfilling Prophecies, Chapter Four, to appear in Interpersonal Expectancies.

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.

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


                                
IX.  Ultimate forms of Discrimination: Terrorism, Ethnic Cleansing, Mass Murder, and Genocide
McCauley,  http://www.brynmawr.edu/academics/faculty_members/terrorismFAQ.shtml

http://www.ngeorgia.com/history/nghisttt.html
http://cherokeehistory.com/samuel.html    


White, R.  W.  (2001).  Social and role identities and political violence.  Pp. 133-158, in R. D.  Ashmore, L.  Jussim, & D.  Wilder (eds), Social identity, intergroup conflict, and conflict reduction.  New York: Oxford University Press.

du Preez, P.  (1994).  Genocides of colonization and decolonization.  In Genocide: The psychology of mass murder.  London: Boyars/Bowerdean.     

du Preez, P.  (1994). Purifying the nation.  .  In Genocide: The psychology of mass murder.  London: Boyars/Bowerdean.     

du Preez, P.  (1994).  Politicide.  In Genocide: The psychology of mass murder.  London: Boyars/Bowerdean.  
  
X. Reducing Prejudice, Discrimination, and Conflict: General
Nelson, T.  (2002).  Reducing prejudice.  In The psychology of prejudice.  Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

Kelman, H.  C.  (2001).  The role of national identity in conflict resolution: Experiences from Israeli-Palestinian problem-solving workshops.  Pp. 187-212 in R. D.  Ashmore, L.  Jussim, & D.  Wilder (eds), Social identity, intergroup conflict, and conflict reduction.  New York: Oxford University Press.

XI. Reducing discrimination: Affirmative Action
Dawes, R. M. (1994).  Affirmative action programs: Discontinuities between thoughts about individuals and thoughts about groups.  In L. Heath, et al., (Eds.), pp. 223-239, Applications of heuristics and biases to social issues.  New York: Plenum.

Crosby, F.  J., Iyer, A., Clayton, S., & Downing, R.  A.  (2003).  Affirmative action: Psychological data and the policy debates.  American Psychologist, 58, 93-115.

XII. Overcoming Prejudice
Marger, M.  N.  (1994).  Jewish Americans. In Race and ethnic relations.  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company.  

Marger, M.  N.  (1994).  Asian Americans. In Race and ethnic relations.  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company.

Thompson. D. C. (1986).  Education.  Chapter 4 in A Black Elite.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

This site is now extra credit, and not required: www.cherokee.org


GRADING:
Short 1/4 page summaries of each article:  10%

In class mid-term (mix of formats, possibly including
multiple choice, t/f, short answer, and essay): 30%

Take Home Final: 40%

In Class Participation: 20%

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