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 ====== PSYC2020 in-class experiments ======
-===== Week #1:  =====
+Generally helpful materials:
+  * Dan Ariely flashcards about irrationality biases [[http://advanced-hindsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/CAHFlashcards01.pdf|Collection1]] / [[http://advanced-hindsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/CAHFlashcards2.pdf|Collection2]]
+===== Week #1: Replication Crisis  =====
+Resources:
+  - Course reading: Book chapter: Replication Crisis in Psychology
 ===== Week #2: Morality =====
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 Resources:
+  - Course reading: Book chapter: Judgment and Decision Making
   - Book: [[https://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Revised-Expanded-Decisions/dp/0061353248|Predictably irrational by Dan Ariely]]
   - Book: [[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/books/review/thinking-fast-and-slow-by-daniel-kahneman-book-review.html|Thinking fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman]]
   - Book: [[https://www.amazon.com/Judgment-Managerial-Decision-Making-Bazerman/dp/1118065700|Judgment in managerial decision making by Max H. Bazerman]]
-  - Course reading: Book chapter: Judgment and Decision Making
 ===== Week #4: Social cognition and attitudes =====
+  - Stereotypes and consistency
+    - Riddles experiment
+      - [[http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1475725717752181|Riddle Me This]] (Skorinko, 2018, PLT)
+      - [[http://journal.sjdm.org/17/171117/jdm171117.pdf|The case of stumpers]] (Bar-Hillel etal, 2018, JDM)
+      - Takeaways:
+        - We can study this in the lab using simple (fun) experiments.
+        - We all have these biases.
+    - Implicit association test
+      - Website: [[https://implicit.harvard.edu/|Project implicit]]
+      - Takeaways:
+        - Difference between explicit and implicit jugdments.
+        - There are tools to study either.
+        - They don't always correlate, both not always strongly correlate to behavior.
+    - Country face detection
+      - Website: [[http://alllooksame.com/|Alllooksame]]
+      - Website: [[http://faceresearch.org/|Face research]]
+      - Takeaways:
+        - Stereotypes don't always work and can lead to wrong judgments.
+        - People generally randomly guess country of origin.
+        - On average, the variations in appearance are very subtle, and all judged as attractive.
+  - Lie detection
+    - Takeaways:
+      - There are some behaviors we associate with lying
+      - We are generally very bad at detecting lies
+      - If we are to make evaluations, we need to know the baseline (person) well and rely on objective quantifiable measures.
+      - Bias: Truth bias, we are inclined to believing others and trusting.
+  - Intuitions about life/physics/math
+    - Takeaways:
+      - Are often biased and wrong. Again, we need objective reliable trustworthy sources rather than our intuitions.
+Resources:
+  - Course reading: Book chapter: Social cognition and attitudes
 ===== Week #5: Persuasion and manipulation =====
+  - Influence tactics
+    - The 6 influence tactics by Robert Cialdini
+    - Effects
+      - Contrast Effect
+      - Scarcity Principle - importance of loss aversion and competition
+      - Consensus Principle - importance of similarity
+      - Consistency Principle - importance of active and public commitment
+      - Reciprocity Principle - importance of tailored, significant, and unexpected
+  - Manipulation techniques
+    - Foot-in-the-door [FITD] (Freedman & Fraser, 1966)
+    - Door-in-the-face  [DITF] (Cialdini)
+    - Low-balling [LB] (Cialdini)
+    - That’s not all [TNL](Burger, 1986, 1999)
+    - Creating similarity [CS]
+  - Nudging
+    - Defaults (Opt in opt out in organ donations)
+    - Focusing attention (urinals)
+    - Perception and context (plate size)
+    - Social information (tax compliance)
+    - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaLGg1wYztk|Video from Richard Thaler]]
+Resources:
+  - Course reading: Book chapter: Persuasion
+  - Book: [[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/books/review/thinking-fast-and-slow-by-daniel-kahneman-book-review.html|Thinking fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman]]
+  - Book: [[https://www.amazon.com/Nudge-Improving-Decisions-Health-Happiness/dp/014311526X|Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein]]
 ===== Week #6: Cooperation =====
+  - Economic games
+    - The homo-economicos hypothesis - actors are fully rational
+    - Game theory games to study economics and show deviation from the neo-classic economics hypothesis
+      - Dictator game
+        - Dictator (giving) game (the classic)
+        - Social change 1: Dictator (taking) game
+        - Social change 2: Dictator (giving) game (the classic), but public
+        - Social change 2: Dictator (taking) game, but public
+      - Ultimatum game
+        - Social change: Ultimatum game, but public
+      - Trust game
+      - Prisoner's dilemma
+        - Social change 1: Prisoner's dilemma, but with a judge
+        - Social change 2: Multiple rounds (learning, adjusting)
+    - Demos
+      - [[http://www.mtv.com/news/2218741/psych-professor-trick-extra-credit-question/|Psychology professor who did this in class]]
+        - Example of one analysis, there are many others: [[https://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2015/07/14/an-awesomely-evil-test-question-and-its-mathematical-answer-game-theory-tuesdays/|An Awesomely Evil Test Question And Its Mathematical Answer – Game Theory Tuesdays]]
+      - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWrjc5IEvc8|Live demonstration in class]]
+Resources:
+  - Course reading: Book chapter: Cooperation
+===== Class #7: Helping / Prosocial behavior =====
+  - Misalignment between what we expect from society/others and ourselves
+  - Misalignment between causes of deaths (people affected) and funding to address.
+  - Differences in helping between countries - not what you thought
+  - Ruining a 1000US$ suit to help a drowning child versus donating 1000US$ to save a girl from South America
+    - The importance of relatability, statistics versus faces/names/people
+  - Risking your life to help others
+  - The bystander effect (Darley & Latané, 1968)
+    - Hurdles to helping those in crisis
+  - Biases
+    - Identifiability
+    - Compassion fade & psychic numbing (Slovic, 2007; Västfjäll, Slovic, Mayorga, & Peters, 2014);
+    - Scope neglect (Desvousges, Johnson, Dunford, Boyle, Hudson, Wilson, 1992)
+    - Proportion over number (Slovic et al., 2002)
+    - Futility thinking (Fetherstonhaugh, Slovic, Johnson, & Friedrich, 1997)
+  - Videos:
+    - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpzpItB6rXw|Trump says he would have run unarmed into Florida school]]