Unit 1. General issues in social psychology: Is deception of human participants ethical?
Should social psychologists try to solve social problems?; Can experimental social psychology and social constructionism coexist?
Unit 2. Social cognition: Are our social perceptions often inaccurate?
Does cognitive dissonance explain why behavior can change attitudes?
Are self-esteem programs misguided?
Can people accurately detect lies?
Are repressed memories real?
Do positive illusions lead to healthy behavior?
Unit 3. Social influence: Do Milgram's obedience experiments help explain the nature of the Holocaust?
Does the Stanford Prison Experiement help explain the effects of imprisonment?
Is subliminal persuasion a myth?
Can people really be brainwashed?
Unit 4. International Society for Research on Aggression: Is stereotyping inevitable?
Does the Implicit Association Test (IAT) measure racial prejudice?
Can sterotypes lead to accurate perceptions of others?
Does true alturism exist?
Does media violence cause aggression?