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I've provided links to some readings in psychology that you may use for your reaction papers....
General Psychology Readings
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Critical Thinking
Nisbet, Matthew (2005). Understanding Bias in Coverage of Intelligent Design. Found on the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal website. September 30, 2005.
Thagard, P. (2003). Why wasn't O. J. convicted: Emotional coherence in legal inference. Cognition and Emotion, 17, 361-383. PDF
Thagard, P. (2005). The emotional coherence of religion. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 5, 58-74.PDF
Thagard, P. (2001). How to make decisions: Coherence, emotion, and practical inference. In E. Millgram (Ed.), Varieties of practical inference . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 355-371. HTML
Intersex Issues
The story of "John/Joan" is available at: http://infocirc.org/rollston.htm
Simon LeVay has an interesting reading on intersex individuals:
Intelligence
Abramovitz, Melissa (2001) What's Your Emotional IQ? Annual Editions: Psychology 03/04. Originally in Current Health 2 Dec 2001.
Memory
Lofus, Elizabeth. (2002) "Memory Faults and Fixes" in Issues in Science & Technology. 2002; publication of the National Academies of Science).
Sexual Orientation
The American Psychological Association http://www.apa.org/pubinfo/answers.html
Herek, G.M. (2004). Beyond "homophobia": Thinking about sexual stigma and prejudice in the twenty-first century. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 1(2), 6-24.
Social Psychology
The Stanford Prison Experiment A slideshow with textual narration covering the details of this classic and troubling study. It is put together by Philip Zimbardo.
Audio Experiences
Note on audio links: If you decide to submit a reaction paper on any audio assignment, you should read up on the topical area and subject featured in the clip.
Cognitive Perspectives
Hear Albert Ellis on Cognitive Behavior Therapy. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1921765
Aaron Beck talks about CBT. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1923943
Hear about using CBT for social phobias. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1920052
The Emotional Coherence of Religion (Paul Thagard). http://www.geocities.com/hgelpi/religion.pdf
Social Psychology
Hear Philip G. Zimbardo, Ph.D talk about his famous Stanford Prison Study. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1135970
Religion
Click here for a reading on The Impact of Religious Organizations on Gender Equality
Click here for an article on the effects of cults and an examination of the Jonestown tragedy
Child and Human Development
Straus, Murray A. (2004). New evidence on the benefits of never spanking. Annual Editions: Psychology 03/04. Originally in Society, Sep/Oct 2001.
Click here for a reading on the Great ADD Hoax!
This is one person's "manual" for dealing with ADD
Click here for a view on Moral Education
More to come. Keep checking back
(updated 4 October 2005)