You point out the wrong, outdated, and less than replicable sections. ;)
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that sounds like work! haha. Are there good intro textbooks that reflect where things are at today. Or are those outdated the moment they publish?
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They are always outdated. I teach intro psych, and always complement lecture with newer results (both new positive effects, as I always did, and now more often with negative effects). I never slavishly follow any textbook. Slides always contain context.
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would be interested to see examples of your slides if you'd want to share them. brian@vox.com
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this seems easy enough to teach! Curious if there's any surveys to professors on whether they do this sort of thing or not. I know there was an (not representative) survey of textbooks not too long agohttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12144-016-9539-7 …
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My question is:how to motivate to students that they need to know this in the first place?I mean,”This is how it was thought to be, now we know it’s not like that”.Well who then cares?(Just thinking from the students point of view)Grateful for any advice

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Before you get into the research a present them with various hypotheses and ask them to say which they think might be true why and how to test.
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I tried to frame things as four steps: 1) here's the big idea 2) here's the famous study and how it illustrates 3) here are the damning criticisms 4) here's what you can do as scholars to figure out what you believe / make a contribution to the literature
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do you have a slide dek (honestly, I have no idea how professors lecture today) or something to that effect that you show students to share? Would be nice to show some examples of how professors teach this brian@vox.com
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Let me see what I've got... this was my first time teaching intro social so it's probably kind of bumpy.
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There's a difference between not replicated and why-did-anyone-ever-think-this-was-science? Facial feedback is the former; Stanford Prison "Experiment" is the latter.
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Good point. When I took intro psych, the prison experiment was mostly used as a discussion prompt on ethics. I forget if we discussed its conclusions
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We did a survey of 262 psych instructors to find this out. Some results here: https://mfr.osf.io/render?url=https://osf.io/va7jg/?action=download%26mode=render …
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thanks for sharing!
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Boring answer: I don’t use textbooks anymore and teach from papers and other sources for class. That way I can update as needed and reduce the financial burden on the student
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Will DM it to you tomorrow. It is a Social Dev. class syllabus
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Teaching Intro is not like teaching a course in your favorite area. Some part of the text is always wrong, out of date, etc - and 1 instructor can’t even know all the gaps in a field this broad. We present theories & evidence, and how to think. Students bring plenty of skepticism
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...and this is precisely why APA working group on Strengthening Intro Psych called for a conceptual core, cross-cutting themes (methods, ethics, culture, ind differences) AND special training/development for instructors teaching Intro. http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2016-06476-003 …
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