Social Research PLC

Semester 2 PLC

April 17 After School

• Which kids do well in college?
  Book Review (article)
  
  
• Test your focus and multitasking ability
  NYTimes tests (link)
  
  
• How effective is multitasking?
  NPR interview with Professors David Meyer and Marcel Just (link)
  
  
• Does multitasking affect learning?
  NPR interview with Professor Russell Poldrack and transcript (link)
  UCLA report on Poldrack's research (link)
  
  

March 20 After School

• Stereotype Threat follow-up: Exactly how does stereotype threat cause people to perform worse on tasks like standardized tests?
  Claude Steele's book on Stereotype threat - highly recommended
  
  
  
• Paying Attention in Class - Why you always have to repeat yourself in class.
  The Class Attention Simulator
  
  
• Group Dynamics - what works best? Raven Progressive Matrices
  Group Intelligence (article)
  
  

February 21 After School

• Assimilation vs Diversity: Are our views a function of race or simply being in a minority group?
  Article in UDel's paper about Hehman's research
  
  
• Facial Recognition: A function of race or something else?
  Article in UDel's paper about Hehman's research
  
  
• Stereotype Threat: What is the best way to talk about stereotypes in the classroom and how can we innoculate students against their effects?
  Stereotype Threat Book Review
  Gender Similarities in Math
  Innoculating Against Stereotype Threat
  A Values Intervention You Can Use
  
  
  

May 15 After School

Semester 1 PLC

December 12th After School

Feedback: what did you find most interesting/helped you the most?

• Info on multitasking
• Stereotype Threat
• Why you should repeat yourself when lecturing
• Raven Tasks & group dynamics
• Group question answering

November 8th Inservice

• Why do we end up with segregated neighborhoods?
  Schelling's segregation model
  
  
• Could just talking about stereotypes cause them?
  Stereotype Threat book review, the gender stereotype threat in math article and the values essay intervention used to inoculate
  
  
• Do you believe that intelligence is fixed or malleable? Might that belief affect achievement?
  Article showing the affect and an intervention, the intervention essay and the good drawer vs good job drawing study
  
  

October 18 Meeting After School

• Could just holding a warm cup of coffee make you more altruistic?
  Warm Hands, Warm Heart
  
  
• Does multitasking affect learning?
  NPR interview (audio) and NPR interview (transcript)
  
  

August 30th Inservice

• Do men tend to engage in risky behavior when women are watching?
  Men Showing Off (article)
  
  
• If you see a piece of trash on the floor...
  Garbage and Crime (article)
  
  
• How effective is multitasking?
  NPR interview with Professor David Meyer (link)
  
  
• What predicts group intelligence?
  Raven Progressive Matrices
  Group Intelligence (article)
  
  
• Do violent video games promote violence in kids?
  Trends in Video Games and Violence (article)
  
  
• When is choice a bad thing?
  Dan Gilbert's TED talk (link)