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1 Psychology 2570r Sidanius Lab in Intergroup Relations: Research Seminar William James Hall, Rm Last Updated: 05/28/18 *** Note: this class has limited enrollment, depending on research support needs. You should obtain a research support position with a researcher in the lab before enrolling*** The Lab Members of the Sidanius Lab in Intergroup Relations are a collection of scholars interested in the intersection of several topics, including: intergroup relations, conflict, inequality, social hierarchy, stereotyping, ideology, prejudice, power, status, and identity. The goals of the lab group are to examine the social psychology of intergroup relations from an integrative and multi-level perspective, producing research that speaks to real world social and political issues. Enrollment in PSY 2570r offers undergraduates an opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a social psychology research lab studying mechanisms of relevance to real-world issues. Enrollment consists primarily of engaging in research support to your lab supervisor, who will be drawn from the members of the lab, listed below. Research support can include involvement in any and all stages of the research process, from experimental planning to the design of materials, to running studies in the laboratory and cleaning and preparing the data for analysis. Though research tasks depend on the specific needs of your lab supervisor, he or she will try to ensure that you have a strong educational experience and exposure to a variety of research tasks. PI: Professor James Sidanius: sidanius@wjh.harvard.edu Members of the Lab Lab Manager Angelina Iannazzi: angelina_lannazzi@fas.harvard.edu (coordinator of PSY 2570r) Post-docs: Robin Bergh: Robin.bergh@gmail.com Sarah Cotterill: s.c.cotteriil@gmail.com Adriane Roso: adrianeroso@yahoo.com Graduate Students : Gregory Davis (also in AAAS): gdavis@g.harvard.edu Asma Ghani: aghani@g.harvard.edu Sa-kiera Hudson: shudson@g.harvard.edu Lumumba Seegars (also at HBS): lseegars@hbs.edu Visiting Scholars Tamar Saguy: tamar.saguy@idc.ac.il Research Assistants Alessia Iancarelli: alessia.iancarelli@libero.it

2 2570r: Requirements and Policies for Undergraduates Research support [50% of grade]: Undergraduate enrollees will have the opportunity to become Research Assistants (RAs), conducting a required 8-10 hours/week of research support with your lab supervisor in the lab. Tasks will include research design, participant recruitment and management, data collection and analysis, and hands-on experience as an experimenter or confederate in lab-based experiments. Lab meetings [25% of grade]: Undergraduates will think critically and ask questions during lab meetings; evaluation will reflect both attendance and participation at the meetings. Lab meetings have the following structure: Weekly RA Lab Meetings: Each lab supervisor will hold their own weekly lab meeting with all of their RAs. These RA weekly lab meetings will be held in William James Hall Lab meetings are designed to give RAs the skills needed to be successful in the lab. Thus the lab meetings combine lecture style presentations on literature searches, Qualtrics, and data entry with professional development on graduate school and faculty-student relations with critical engagement with scholarly work (See below for more details on the syllabus). There will be short weekly assignments due at the morning before lab. Missing Lab Meetings: If you are unable to attend a lab meeting, please your lab supervisor at least 24 hours in advance. You are able to miss a maximum of two lab meetings before your grade is affected. Optional Weekly Sidanius Lab meetings : The Sidanius Lab meetings consist of one graduate lab member each week (or occasionally a visiting scholar) presenting their research progress for wider discussion and feedback. RAs are encouraged to join in the discussion and provide feedback on the presenter s work. If you are conducting your own independent research (such as for a significant psychology-related class project, or for your senior thesis), you should discuss with your lab supervisor in the lab about the possibility of presenting this work for a half or full lab session. End of semester paper [25% of grade]: At the end of the semester you will be required to write a final paper (Due at 5 pm at the end of reading period). This paper is intended to demonstrate that you (a) can use the research skills learned in the semester to find a target set of articles, (b) summarize those articles to support a conclusion, (c) have an opportunity to connect your personal interests with what we do in our research lab, and (d) document the tasks you ve worked on in the lab this semester. Paper Guidelines : 1. Paper should be at least 7 pages but no more than 10 pages, double-spaced, 1-inch margin, 12 pt. font. The paper should have the following sections. You can integrate the requirements into one long narrative or section your paper into three parts. 2. Part 1: Present the findings of your literature review. You should find at least 5 articles that relate the projects you re working on and present how they support your overall research question. Feel free to chat with your supervisor about your ideas. 3. Part 2: Propose a project that connects your personal interest with the work that your graduate student or faculty mentor is doing. Given the literature review you did, what study would you find interesting to complete? What holes in the literature did you find that you d be interested in exploring? This does not have to be a full study design (although it can be), but you should propose some ideas. 3. Part 3: Summarize what you did in the lab. What responsibilities did you have? What did you do? What did you enjoy or wish to be different next semester? This will be useful if you decide to go to graduate school (you will include something similar in your personal statement) or ask for a letter of recommendation from our lab. 2

3 Last Updated: 05/28/18 **Please note these requirements may be adjusted by your graduate student or faculty mentor. 3570r: Requirements and Policies for Graduate Students Graduate Students: Graduate students enrolled in Psych 3570r are required to attend the weekly Sidanius lab meetings [50% of your grade] and to lead one lab session [50% of your grade]. Students can lead a lab session either by: (1) presenting your own research that pertains to intergroup relations, or (2) leading a discussion surrounding literature on the topic of intergroup relations. 910r: Requirements and Policies for Undergraduates Psychology 910r: Students enrolled in 910r are required to commit hours/week of research support [60% of your grade], and to submit the term paper [40% of your grade, Psychology Department website for guidelines]. Attendance at the RA and Sidanius weekly lab meetings is strongly encouraged, but not required. Volunteer Research Assistants: Requirements and Policies Volunteers: If you are volunteering and not enrolled in the course, you are not required to write a paper. You are still required to attend the RA lab meetings, although graduate student requirements/research needs supersede this requirement. Volunteer RAs should discuss their hours/week work commitment with their lab supervisor before the start of a semester. Cross Listing Psychology 2570r: Intergroup Relations: Research Seminar, is included in the Ethnicity, Migration, Rights (EMR; formerly Ethnic Studies) course listing. This means that students can count the 2570r course towards the fulfillment of an EMR Secondary Field.

4 Reading List for Undergraduates Additional Optional Readings by Topic Social Dominance Theory Bratt, C. Sidanius, J. & Sheehy-Skeffington, J. (2016). Shaping the development of prejudice: Latent growth modeling of the influence of Social Dominance Orientation on outgroup affect in youth. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 1-8, DOI: / Duckitt, J., Wagner, C., du Plessis, I., & Birum, I. (2002). The psychological bases of ideology and prejudice: Testing a dual process model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, Ho, A. K., Sidanius, J., Pratto, F., Levin, S., Thomsen, L., Kteily, N., & Sheehy-Skeffington, J. (in press). Social dominance orientation: Revisiting the structure and function of a variable predicting social and political attitudes. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Kteily, N. S., Sidanius, J., & Levin, S. (2011). Social dominance orientation: Cause or mere effect? Evidence for SDO as a causal predictor of prejudice and discrimination against ethnic and racial outgroups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, McDonald, Navarrete, & Sidanius (in press). Developing a Theory of Gendered Prejudice: An Evolutionary and Social Dominance Perspective. In Roderick Kramer, Geoffrey Leonardelli, & Robert Livingston (Eds.) Social cognition, and intergroup relations: A Festschrift in honor of Marilynn Brewer. (pp ). New York: Psychology Press. Sidanius, J. & Pratto, F. (1999). Social Dominance: An Intergroup Theory of Social Hierarchy and Oppression. New York: Cambridge University Press. Other social-structural theories of intergroup relations Bobo, L. (1999). Prejudice as group position: Microfoundations of a sociological approach to racism and race relations. Journal of Social Issues, 55, Jackman, M. (1994). The velvet glove: paternalism and conflict in gender, class and race relations. Berkeley: University of California Press. Jost, J.T., Banaji, M.R., & Nosek, B.A. (2004). A decade of system justification theory: Accumulated evidence of conscious and unconscious bolstering of the status quo. Political Psychology, 25, Modern Prejudice Glick, P. et al. (2000). Beyond prejudice as simple antipathy: Hostile and benevolent sexism across cultures. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 79, Dovidio, J. F., & Gaertner, S. L. (1998). On the nature of contemporary prejudice: The causes, consequences, and challenges of aversive racism. In J. L. Eberhardt, & S. T Fiske (Eds.), Confronting Racism: The problem and the response. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, pp Sears, David O., & P. J. Henry (2005). The theory of symbolic racism after thirty years: A current appraisal. In Zanna, Mark P. (ED). (2005). Advances in experimental social psychology, Vol. 37. (pp ). New York: Academic Press. 4

5 Last Updated: 05/28/18 Implicit Social Cognition Devine, P. G. (1989). Stereotypes and prejudice: Their automatic and controlled components. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 56, Greenwald, A. G., & Banaji, M. R. (1995). Implicit social cognition: Attitudes, self-esteem, and stereotypes. Psychological Review, 102, 4-27 Stereotypes Fiske, S. T., Cuddy, A., Glick, P., & Xu, J. (2002). A model of (often mixed) stereotype content: Competence and warmth respectively follow from perceived status and competition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, Steele, C. M. & Aronson, J. (1995). Stereotype threat and the intellectual test performance of African Americans. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, Social Policy Attitudes Haley, H., & Sidanius, J. (2006). The Positive and Negative Framing of Affirmative Action: A Group Dominance Perspective. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, Krysan, M. (2000). Prejudice, politics, and public opinion: Understanding the sources of racial policy attitudes. Annual Review of Sociology, 26, Evolutionary Approaches Dubreuil, B. (2010) Human Evolution and the Origins of Hierarchies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Kurzban, R., Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (2001) Can race be erased? Coalitional computation and social categorization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 98, Olsson, A. Ebert, J. P., Banaji, M. R., & Phelps, E. A. (2005). The role of social groups in the persistence of learned fear. Science, 309, Navarrete, C.D., Olsson, A., Ho, A.K., Mendes, W.B., Thomsen, L., Sidanius, J. (2009). Fear extinction to an outgroup face: The role of target gender. Psychological Science, 20, Navarrete, C. D., McDonald, M. M., Molina, L. E., & Sidanius, J. (2010). Prejudice at the Nexus of Race and Gender: An Outgroup Male Target Hypothesis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98, Mahajan, N., Martinez, M. A., Gutierrez, N. L., Diesendruck, G., Banaji, M. R. & Santos, L. R. (2011). The Evolution of Intergroup Bias: Perceptions and Attitudes in Rhesus Macaques. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, Social Categorization and Perception/Reification of Social Group Boundaries Ho, A. K., Sidanius, J., Levin, D. T. & Banaji, M. R. (2011). Evidence for hypodescent and racial hierarchy in the categorization and perception of biracial individuals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100,

6 Caruso, E. M., Mead, N. L., & Balcetis, E. (2009). Political partisanship influences perception of biracial candidates skin tone. PNAS, 106, Halberstadt, J., Sherman, S. J., & Sherman, J. W. (2011). Why Barack Obama is Black: A cognitive account of hypodescent. Psychological Science, 22, The Ideological Justification of Social Inequality Katz, I., & Hass, R. (1988). Racial ambivalence and American value conflict: Correlational and priming studies of dual cognitive structures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 55, Knowles, E. D., Lowery, B. S., Chow, R. M., & Hogan, C. M. (2009). On the malleability of ideology: Motivated construals of color-blindness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, Thomsen, L., Green, E. G. T., Ho, A. K., Levin, S., van Laar, C., Sinclair, S., & Sidanius, J. (2010). Wolves in Sheep s Clothing: SDO Asymmetrically Predicts Perceived Ethnic Victimization among White and Latino Students across Three Years. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, The Psychology of Social Stigma Crocker, J., Major, B. & Steele, C. Social Stigma. In D. Gilbert & S. Fiske, (1998). Handbook of Social Psychology, Vol II. (ONLY pp ). Jones, E. E., Farina, A., Hastorf, A., Markus, H. R., Miller, D., Scott, R. (1984). The dimensions of stigma. Social Stigma: The Psychology of Marked Relationships. (Chapter 2: pp ). New York: W. H. Freeman and Company. Cottrell, C. A., & Neuberg, S. L. (2005). Different emotional reactions to different groups: A Sociofunctional threat-based approach to prejudice. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88,