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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 02:01:00 EST
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- From: Anna <ROMERO@UNC.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: What's new and exciting in Social Psych?
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- > I had an interesting phone call from a prof of mine at the
- > school I attended for my MA. The school has a masters program
- > that puts out experimental, couseling and school psychology
- > majors. The program is very strong in the areas of statistics
- > and computers and to a lesser extent in basic research design,
- > but has a definite behavorist bias. They're restructuring their
- > program a bit and he's tryin to decide whether to add an upper
- > level undergrad social psych course or some other course. He
- > asked me "Hey Betty, What's new and exciting in the
- > field of social psychology?"
- > Well... I didn't have a real good answer for him.
- > I rambled a bit bout attitudes and persuasion eg the
- > elaboration liklihood model, Chaiken's model; measurement
- > issues in attitude behavior consistancy ala Fishbein & Ajzen,
- > Epstein, Snyder & Ickes, Mischel, but I was a bit disappointed
- > that I really couldn't make a strong case for the social
- > psych course. *shrug* now it's buggin me! Does anyone out there in
- > Psygradland have any better answers for him???
- >
- > He also asked. "Why should I teach a social psych course?
- > Will that help prepare them for grad school better than
- > some other course?"
- > On this one I leaned toward measurement and methodology
- > eg Fishbein & Ajzen, Epstein, Snyder & Ickes on measurement issues
- > and Cronbach and Meehl, Campbell and Fiske on construct
- > validity. As I think this would better prepare people for PhD
- > programs that a general social psych course would. How
- > would you respond to his question?
- >
- > Time to go give a final exam!
- > (Jeeeez it's nice not having to take final exams!)
- > Betty
-
- Betty,
- There is a lot going on in the field these days. Just as an "off
- the cuff" example, the work that Caryl Rusbult has been doing in the
- area of interpersonal relationships, the work on Discontinuity by
- Insko & Schopler (and many others), the prior knowledge work by Wendy
- Wood, ect. If you want more information (I've taught Social at the
- undergraduate level for a year and studied it for 3 years), please
- e-mail me personally with specific questions - I'd be happy to help
- if I can (including graduate-level books, advanced undergraduate texts
- and specific citations for coursepaks).
- Have fun!
- Anna
- Romero@UNC.BITNET
-