Social Psych History
Yale Social Psych Hx
Yale Social Psych
Yale Psychology
Yale University
100
- Published in 1898 and often credited as the first social psychology experiment, Norman Triplett examined this psychological construct that explained why people performed better in the presence of others
What is Social Facilitation?
100
- This shocking study on obedience took place at Yale in the early 1960s by this Social Psychologist.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
100
- You might think that your implicit biases are durable and unchanging, but this Yale Social Psychologist has persuasively challenged that belief?
Who is Melissa Ferguson?
100
- This Yale Social Psychologist expanded how we understand intelligence to include abilities like emotional control, reasoning, and perceptivity.
Who is Peter Salovey?
100
- This Yale Social Psychologist testified in 2019 to the U.S. Congress Judiciary's Committee on policing practices
Who is Phillip Atiba Solomon (fka Goff)
200
- The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology was the original title for which prestigious social psychology journal?
What is JPSP? (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology)
200
- Identified by Yale Social Psychologist Carl Hovland, this psychological effect describes how messages coming from an untrustworthy source can become more persuasive over time
What is the sleeper effect?
200
- Yale Social Psychologist Margaret Clark distinguishes between these two types of relational norms.
What are communal and exchange relationships?
200
- This Yale Clinical Psychologist recently published evidence showing that psychopathy is changeable by targeting unique cognitive-affective mechanisms across subtypes of disorders
Who is Arielle Baskin-Sommers?
200
This Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry serves as the current Provost of Yale
Who is Scott Strobel?
300
- This Social Psychologist’s theories include Cognitive Dissonance, Social Comparison, and Prophecy and Belief Preservation
Who is Leon Festinger?
300
- Developed by this Yale Social Psychologist, inoculation theory shows that exposing people to a weak argument makes them more resistant to a future stronger persuasive attack.
Who is William (Bill) McGuire?
300
- This Yale Social Psychologist conducts experiments examining the effectiveness of a strengths-based approach among those with marginalized identities
Who is David Silverman?
300
- “Brittle smiles,” “Simulating murder,” and “The truth about cats and dogs” are all titles of academic papers by this Yale Social Psychologist
Who is Wendy Berry Mendes?
300
This acting divisional Dean of Social Science is responsible for overseeing the Departments of Economics, Political Science, and of course, Psychology.
Who is Alan Gerber?
400
- In this famous 1954 study, Sherif and Sherif examined processes of ingroup formation, intergroup conflict, and conflict resolution.
What is the Robbers Cave Experiment?
400
- While faculty at Yale, Mahzarin Banaji and her colleagues developed this reaction time task that attempts to measure biases
What is the Implicit Association Test (IAT)?
400
- This Yale Social Psychologist travels to distant hunter-gatherer societies to examine claims of universality of emotional expressions and perceptions
Who is Maria Gendron?
400
- This Cognitive Neuroscientist published evidence challenging the idea that infant amnesia was due to an immature hippocampus.
Who is Nick Turk-Browne?
400
This art historian received her PhD from Yale, and formerly took office in July 2024, succeeding Peter Salovey as the 24th President of Yale
Who is Maurie McInnis?
500
- These Social Psychologists developed the famous “Doll Test” study in the 1940s providing some of the first empirical evidence on the development of racial identity and internalized racism.
Who are Kenneth Clark and Mamie Clark?
500
- Reducing prejudice by recategorizing others from “them” to “us” (Common Ingroup Identity Model) was developed by this Yale Social Psychologist
Who is John (Jack) Dovidio?
500
- This National Academy of Science member and Yale Social Psychologist has shown that when White participants are reminded of US demographic trends from majority to minority society they shift to more conservative values
Who is Jennifer Richeson?
500
- This Cognitive Developmentalist argues that children don’t simply rely on surface level perceptual features to understand objects but rather they develop theory-based concepts or “core theories”
Who is Frank Keil?
500
This Yale mascot is the 19th bulldog to serve in the official role
Who is Handsome Dan?