Friday, March 11, 2005

Book recommendation: Blink

So, my book group is reading Blink by Malcolm Gladwell this month. Gladwell writes about the power of and problems with snap judgments - summarizing a great deal of work in cognitive psych as he does so. If you are already familiar with FACS, priming, IAT, etc. there isn't really anything new in here. However, the book is a fairly easy read and very accessible. I think it would be very helpful in my quest to develop a social psych class that doesn't use a textbook. This book could easily supplement lectures on cognition as well as prejudice and discrimination, giving students plenty of examples of real-world application and making plenty of claims that could yield interesting class discussion.

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