Teaching
Social Psychology

Articles,
Books & Book Chapters
available online

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new links as of June 1, 2010
In
addition to the links to the research articles themselves, indented
under many of the articles are links to blog entries or other summaries
or commentaries about the research. What can you do with these summaries?
First, you can read them yourselves as a quick way to browse current
research. Then you can decide if this is research worth incorporating
in class or assigning to your students. Second, the blog summaries
can serve as good alternatives to the actual research articles to
assign to students. A mixture of original research articles and such
summaries exposes students to a greater number and breadth of studies.
And, as many of us have learned, students are much more likely to
read and discuss a one-page summary than a 15-page article for class.
Also, these blog entries sometimes go beyond the original research
to discuss other interesting issues and research.
Elaine Perea suggests another good use of the blog summaries that
she has previously used with textbook claims: "Locate the cited
article and read it carefully. Write an essay explaining whether
the blog author was justified in his/her claims based upon the reported
research findings."

This
section of the Resources website includes links to articles that will
or have appeared in peer-reviewed journals as well as peer-reviewed
books and book chapters all available on the Web. Some are preprints,
some reprints and some are simply copies of work graciously made available
by the authors or publishers. For readings in your courses you might
choose to point your students to some of these materials. Or, perhaps
by browsing through some of the articles or chapters you will find
some new ones of interest to you.
If
you know of other such material available online or are willing to share
some of your work, please send me a note at jfmueller@noctrl.edu.
Resources
for the Teaching of Social Psychology is a part of the CROW Project,
Course Resources on the Web. CROW was initially sponsored by the Associated
Colleges of Illinois and generously supported by UPS. This site
was created by Jon Mueller, Professor of Psychology at North Central
College, Naperville, IL. Send comments to Jon.
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