Brehm, Kassin, and Fein's social psychology textbook has a number of excellent activities on their home page.
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Professors Brehm, Kassin, and Fein have developed a series of excellent simulations and activities that deal with social and group processes. These activities require the Shockwave plugin, which is available for free from Macromedia's web site. (click here to download and install Shockwave now.
The NetLab activities take a bit of time to open, so don't get impatient. If you have Shockwave installed, then you can expect to wait about 30 seconds (depending on your connection speed) to get the first activity running.
Group Processes
- Understanding Groups: What's Your GBQ (Group Behavior Quotient)?
- Milgram's Research:
How Far Would You Go in Response to Demands for Obedience?This activity provides a graphic illustration of the relationship between the voltage administered in Milgram's experiment and obedience.
- Leadership:
Leader, Leader on the Wall, Who's the Best Leader of Them All?
- Leadership:
Who Are the Greatest Leaders of Our Time?
- Cults:
What Can We Learn from Cults?
- Conflict:
Does Self-Interest Pay? Choosing to Cooperate or Compete
Self-Tests
- Group Test
Putting Common Sense About Group Processes to the TestThis short survey asks tests your knowledge of group processes, in general.
- Conformity Test
Putting Common Sense To The Test: ConformityThis short survey asks tests your knowledge of conformity processes in groups--and excellent way to check to see if you rely, to much, on common sense when make decisions about conformity pressures.
Social Influence
- Peer Pressure:
When Conformity Leads To Danger: Teenagers And Drinking Behavior
- Interventions:
Which Programs Targeted At Young People Have The Effect Of Reducing Alcohol (And Drug) Consumption?
- Resisting Influence:
Getting Assertive And Overcoming Pressures To Conform
- Assertiveness:
Say What You Mean And Mean What You Say: Getting Assertive With Language
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