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Psychology 314 - Experimental Research Methods

Syllabi

USC - Stephenson - Fall 2020

Additional Resources

The following are concerned with themes and topics related to the course. Available for extra credit, geeking out, and diving deep.

Books

Behave: The Biology of Humans At Our Best and Worst  - Robert M Sapolsky

Blitzed: Drugs in The Third Reich - Norman Ohler

Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick 

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky 

Deep Survival - Laurence Gonzales 

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

Eichmann in Jerusalem - Hannah Arendt

Enlightenment Now - The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress - Steven Pinker

Explaining Culture: A Naturalistic Approach - Dan Sperber

From Bacteria to Bach and Back - The Evolution of Minds  - Daniel C Dennett

Games People Play - Eric Berne

God : A Biography - Jack Miles

Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond

Homo Deus - A Brief History of Tomorrow - Yuval Noah Harrari

How Emotions Are Made  - Lisa Feldman Barrett

How Humans Evolved - Boyd, R., Silk, J. B.

How To Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens WIll Talk - Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

Love and Limerance - Dorothy Tennov

Love is a Story : A New Theory of Relationships - Robert J Sternberg

Man and His Symbols - Carl Jung

Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief - Jordan B Peterson

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabrial Garcia Marquez

People Reading - Dr. Ernst G. Beier and Evans G. Valens

Psychological Science 6th edition (2018) - Gazzaniga, M.S.

Psychological Warfare in the Intifada -Ron Schleifer

Psychology. OpenStax. - Rosie M Speilman - openstax.org/details/books/psychology

Psychology and Religion - Carl Jung

Research in psychology : Methods and Design (8th edition) - Goodwin, C.J., & Goodwin, K.A. (2017)

Re-visioning Psychology - James Hillman

Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harrari

The Act of Will - Robert Assagioli 

The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious - Carl G Jung

The Blank Slate  - Steven Pinker

The Coddling of The American Mind - Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

The Cultural Nature of Human Development - Barbara Rogoff

The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B.  White 

The Gulag Archipelago - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn 

The Happiness Hypothesis- Jonathan Haidt

The Interview: An Ethnographic Approach - Jonathan Skinner

The New Psychology of Love - Robert Sternberg and Karin Weis

The Origins and History of Consciousness - Erich Neumann

The Question of God : C.S. Lewis and Sigmuend Freud Discuss God, Love, Sex, and The Meaning of LIfe - Dr. Armand M. Nicholi, Jr. 

The Redemptive Self - Stories Americans Live By - Dan P Mcadams

The Righteous Mind - Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion - Jonathan Haidt

The Roots of Religion - Roger Trigg and Justin L. Barrett

The Secret of our Success - Joseph Henrich

The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins

The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker

The True Believer - Eric Hoffer

Through a Window - Jane Goodall 

Why We Love - Helen Fisher

Why Would Anyone Believe in God? - Justin Barrett

Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers - The Acclaimed Guide to Stress , Stress Related Diseases, and Coping  - Robert M Sapolsky

 

WEIRD ARTICLE

Henrich, J., Heine, S. J., & Norenzayan, A. (2010). The weirdest people in the world?. Behavioral and brain sciences, 33(2-3), 61-83.

TV Show Episodes/Movies

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

A Dangerous Method (2011)

Altered states (1980)

As Good As It Gets (1997)

Battle Royale (2000)

Black Swan (2010)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Experimenter (2015)

Fight Club (1999)

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Girl, Interrupted (1999)

Good Will Hunting (1997)

Identity (2003)

Inception (2010)

Inside Out (2015)

It’s Kind of a Funny Story (2010)

Jacob’s Ladder (1990)

Limitless (2011)

Memento (2001)

Mr. Robot (2015 - 2019)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

Rain Man (1988)

Regarding Henry (1991)

Reign Over Me (2007)

Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

Still Alice (2014)

The Deer Hunter (1978)

The Experiment (2010)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)

The Truman Show (1998)

The Wave (1981)

Documentaries

A Class Divided (1985)

Best Boy (1979)

Boy Interrupted (2009)

Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (2007)

Journey Into Self (1969)

Kim Peek: The Real Rain Man (2006)

Lesson Plan (2010)

Matter of Heart (1986)

Stephen Fry: The Secret LIfe of the Manic Depressive (2006)

Course Relevant Videos

Crash Course
Short Clips
TED-esque Lectures

Dated Research

Sleeping Sickness

The ASCH Conformity Experiment

The Marshmallow Test

Stroop Task

Placebos

Brain Swashing

Measuring IQ

Rubber Hand Illusion Experiments

Harlow's Monkey Experiments

Electric Brain Manipulation

Brain in Jar Experiments

The Rorschach Test

Physics and the Brain

Experiments on Dessert

Navigating Digital Information
Tutorials

SPSS Basics Playlist

R Programming Tutorial - Learn the Basics of Statistical Computing

Navigating Digital Information

Fact Checking

Who Can You Trust?

Evaluating Evidence

Data & Infographics

Online Information

Lateral Reading

Using Wikipedia

Evaluating Photos & Videos

Click Restraint

Social Media & Digital Information

Experiments on Dessert

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