1. Psychology is a young science, but social psychology is younger still.

2. B = f (P, E) and the three aspects of social psychology

A. Intrapersonal
B. Interpersonal
C. Collective

3. Social psychologists use a variety of research techniques, including laboratory experiments, field experiments and interventions, surveys, and theory-testing through structural equation modeling. One recent approach is the use of functional MRIs to investigate social psychological phenomena. See article by Azar (2002, January) (http://www.apa.org/monitor/jan02/frontier.html) on social cognitive neuroscience.

4. Deception methodology

A. Prevalence (Nicks et al., 1997)

(1) What are examples of deception?
(2) What trends in the use of deception did Nicks et al. find?
(3) Later survey results
(4) What factors are responsible for the trends observed?

B. Justification

C. Failure of role playing as an alternative

D. Ethics cases (group discussion)

E. Participant reactions to being in deception studies

(1) Prior research on the participant reactions to being in a deception study.
(2) Epley & Huff (1998) experiment.

5. Experimental realism and mundane realism

6. IRBs and "mission creep"

A. What is meant by the term, "mission creep"?
B. What is responsible for the strain being experienced with the current IRB system?
C. What are recommendations for reducing the strain?

7. In social psychology, it is often impossible to use within-subject manipulations of the independent variable. In other words, treatments often cannot be presented one after the other to a participant. What are the ramifications of this situation for the outcome of an experiment? (group discussion)