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| General Issues in Social Psychology | |
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| Is Deception of Human Participants Ethical? | |
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| Should Social Psychologists Try to Solve Social Problems? | |
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| Can Experimental Social Psychology and Social Constructionism Coexist? | |
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| Social Cognition | |
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| Are Our Social Perceptions Often Inaccurate? | |
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| Does Cognitive Dissonance Explain Why Behavior Can Change Attitudes? | |
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| Are Self-Esteem Improvement Programs Misguided? | |
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| Is the Millennial Generation More Narcissistic Than Other Generations? | |
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| Can People Accurately Detect Lies? | |
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| Should Research from Social Cognitive Neuroscience Be Used to Inform Public Policy? | |
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| o Positive Illusions Lead to Healthy Behavior? | |
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| Social Influence | |
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| Do Milgram's Obedience Experiments Help Explain the Nature of the Holocaust? | |
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| Is It Possible to Truly Replicate Milgram's Obedience Experiments? | |
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| Does the Stanford Prison Experiment Help Explain the Effects of Imprisonment? | |
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| Is Subliminal Persuasion a Myth? | |
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| Can People Really Be Brainwashed? | |
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| Social Relations | |
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| Is Stereotyping Inevitable? | |
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| Does the Implicit Association Test (IAT) Measure Racial Prejudice? | |
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| Can Stereotypes Lead to Accurate Perceptions of Others? | |
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| Does True Altruism Exist? | |
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| Does Media Violence Cause Aggression? | |
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| NO: William B. Swann Jr., Christine Chang-Schneider, and Katie Larsen McClarty, from "Do People's Self-Views Matter? Self-Concept and Self-Esteem in Everyday Life," American Psychologist (February/March 2007) | |
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| Is the Millennial Generation More Narcissistic Than Other Generations? | |
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| YES: Jean M. Twenge, Sara Konrath, Joshua D. Foster, W. Keith Campbell, and Brad J. Bushman, from "Egos Inflating Over Time: A Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory," Journal of Personality (vol. 76, pp. 875-901, 2008) | |
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| NO: Stephanie Rosenbloom, from "Generation Me vs. You Revisited," New York Times (January 17, 2008) | |
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| Can People Accurately Detect Lies? | |
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| YES: Paul Ekman, Maureen O'Sullivan, and Mark G. Frank, from "A Few Can Catch a Liar," Psychological Science (May 1999) | |
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| NO: Bella M. DePaulo, from "Spotting Lies: Can Humans Learn to Do Better?" Current Directions in Psychological Science (June 1994) | |
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| Should Research from Social Cognitive Neuroscience Be Used to Inform Public Policy? | |
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| YES: Sonia K. Kang, Michael Inzlicht, and Belle Derks, from "Social Neuroscience and Public Policy on Intergroup Relations: A Hegelian Analysis," Journal of Social Issues (vol. 66, pp. 586-591, 2010) | |
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| NO: Sonia K. Kang, Michael Inzlicht, and Belle Derks, from "Social Neuroscience and Public Policy on Intergroup Relations: A Hegelian Analysis," Journal of Social Issues (vol. 66, pp. 591-596, 2010) | |
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| Do Positive Illusions Lead to Healthy Behavior? | |
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| YES: Shelley E. Taylor and Jonathon D. Brown, from "Illusion and Well-Being: A Social Psychological Perspective on Mental Health," Psychological Bulletin (March 1988) | |
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| NO: C. Randall Colvin, Jack Block, and David C. Funder, from "Overly Positive Self-Evaluations and Personality: Negative Implications for Mental Health," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (June 1995) | |
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| Social Influence | |
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| Do Milgram's Obedience Experiments Help Explain the Nature of the Holocaust? | |
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| YES: John P. Sabini and Maury Silver, from "Destroying the Innocent with a Clear Conscience: A Sociopsychology of the Holocaust," in Joel Dimsdale, ed., Survivors, Victims, and Perpetrators: Essays on the Nazi Holocaust (Hemisphere Books, 1980) | |
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| NO: Florence R. Miale and Michael Selzer, from "Banality?" The Nuremberg Mind: The Psychology of the Nazi Leaders (Quadrangle/New York Times Book Company, 1975) | |
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| Is It Possible to Truly Replicate Milgram's Obedience Experiments? | |
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| YES: Jerry M. Burger, from "Replicating Milgram: Would People Still Obey Today?" APS Observer (vol. 64, pp. 1-11, 2007) | |
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| NO: Arthur G. Miller, from "Reflections on 'Replicating Milgram' (Burger, 2009)," American Psychologist (vol. 64, pp. 20-27, 2009) | |
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| Does the Stanford Prison Experiment Help Explain the Effects of Imprisonment? | |
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| YES: Craig Haney and Philip Zimbardo, from "The Past and Future of U.S. Prison Policy: Twenty-Five Years after the Stanford Prison Experiment," American Psychologist (July 1998) | |
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| NO: David T. Lykken, from "Psychology and the Criminal Justice System: A Reply to Haney and Zimbardo," The General Psychologist (Spring 2000) | |
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| Is Subliminal Persuasion a Myth? | |
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| YES: Anthony R. Pratkanis, from "The Cargo-Cult Science of Subliminal Persuasion," Skeptical Inquirer (vol. 16, 1992) | |
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| NO: Nicholas Epley, Kenneth Savitsky, and Robert A. Kachelski, from "What Every Skeptic Should Know About Subliminal Persuasion," Skeptical Inquirer (vol. 23, 1999) | |
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| Can People Really Be Brainwashed? | |
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| YES: Trudy Solomon, from "Programming and Deprogramming the Moonies: Social Psychology Applied," The Brainwashing/Deprogramming Controversy (Edwin Mellen Press, 1983) | |
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| NO: James T. Richardson, from "A Social Psychological Critique of 'Brainwashing' Claims about Recruitment to New Religions," The Handbook on Cults and Sects in America (JAI Press, 1993) | |
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| Social Relations | |
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| Is Stereotyping Inevitable? | |
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| YES: Patricia G. Devine, from "Stereotypes and Prejudice: Their Automatic and Controlled Components," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (January 1989) | |
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| NO: Lorella Lepore and Rupert Brown, from "Category and Stereotype Activation: Is Prejudice Inevitable?" Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (February 1997) | |
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| Does the Implicit Association Test (IAT) Measure Racial Prejudice? | |
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| YES: Shankar Vedantam, from "See No Bias," The Washington Post (January 23, 2005) | |
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| NO: Amy Wax and Philip E. Tetlock, from "We Are All Racists At Heart," The Wall Street Journal (December 1, 2005) | |
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| Can Stereotypes Lead to Accurate Perceptions of Others? | |
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| YES: Lee J. Jussim, Clark R. McCauley, and Yuen-Ting Lee, from "Why Study Stereotype Accuracy and Inaccuracy?" | |
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| Stereotype Accuracy: Toward Appreciating Group Differences (APA, 1995) | |
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| NO: Charles Stangor, from "Content and Application Inaccuracy in Social Stereotyping," Stereotype Accuracy: Toward Appreciating Group Differences (APA, 1995) | |
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| Does True Altruism Exist? | |
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| YES: C. Daniel Batson, Bruce D. Duncan, Paula Ackerman, Terese Buckley, and Kimberly Birch, from "Is Empathic Emotion a Source of Altruistic Motivation?" Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (February 1981) | |
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| NO: Robert B. Cialdini, Mark Schaller, Donald Houlihan, Kevin Arps, Jim Fultz, and Arthur L. Beaman, from "Empathy-Based Helping: Is It Selflessly or Selfishly Motivated?" Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (April 1987) | |
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| Does Media Violence Cause Aggression? | |
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| YES: L. Rowell Huesmann and Laramie D. Taylor, from "The Role of Media Violence in Violent Behavior," Annual Review of Public Health (vol. 27, pp. 393-415, 2006) | |
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| NO: Jonathan L. Freedman, from Villain or Scapegoat? Media Violence and Aggression (University of Toronto Press 2002, pp. 3-21) | |
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