Advanced Topics in Social Psychology

Required: There is no textbook for this class.

Listed material: Assessments due Jan 12 Welcome- icebreakers,

Listed material: Introduction to the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis - Boroditsky, L. (2011). How language shapes thought. Scientific American, 304(2), 62-65. - Whorf, B. L. (1978). The relation of habitual thought and behaviour to language (1939). In Language, thought, and reality: Selected writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf. MIT press. - Levinson, S. C. (1997). Language and cognition: The cognitive consequences of spatial description in Guugu Yimithirr. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 7(1), 98-131.

Listed material: Sapir-Whorf and colours - Gilbert, A. L., Regier, T., Kay, P., & Ivry, R. B. (2008). Support for lateralization of the Whorf effect beyond the realm of color discrimination. Brain and language, 105(2), 91-98. - Regier, T., & Kay, P. (2009). Language, thought, and color: Whorf was half right. Trends in cognitive sciences, 13(10), 439-446. - Winawer, J., Witthoft, N., Frank, M. C., Wu, L., Wade, A. R., & Boroditsky, L. (2007). Russian blues reveal effects of language on color discrimination. Proceedings of the national academy of sciences, 104(19), 7780-7785. - Lupyan, G., Abdel Rahman, R., Boroditsky, L., & Clark, A. (2020, April 28). Effects of Language on Visual Perception. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/pztmc

Listed material: Sapir-Whorf and time - Boroditsky, L. (2001). Does language shape thought?: Mandarin and English speakers' conceptions of time. Cognitive psychology, 43(1), 1-22. - Boroditsky, L., Fuhrman, O., & McCormick, K. (2011). Do English and Mandarin speakers think about time differently?. Cognition, 118(1), 123-129. - Casasanto, D. (2008). Who's afraid of the big bad Whorf? Crosslinguistic differences in temporal language and thought. Language learning, 58, 63-79. - Fuhrman, O., & Boroditsky, L. (2010). Cross‐cultural differences in mental representations of time: Evidence from an implicit nonlinguistic task. Cognitive science, 34(8), 1430-1451.

Listed material: Introduction to conceptual metaphors - Landau, M. J., Meier, B. P., & Keefer, L. A. (2010). A metaphor-enriched social cognition. Psychological bulletin, 136(6), 1045. - Thibodeau, P. H., & Boroditsky, L. (2011). Metaphors we think with: The role of metaphor in reasoning. PloS one, 6(2), e16782. - Meier, B. P., Hauser, D. J., Robinson, M. D., Friesen, C. K., & Schjeldahl, K. (2007). What's" up" with God? Vertical space as a representation of the divine. Journal of personality and social psychology, 93(5), 699. - Ackerman, J. M., Nocera, C. C., & Bargh, J. A. (2010). Incidental haptic sensations influence social judgments and decisions. Science, 328(5986), 1712-1715. - Williams, L. E., & Bargh, J. A. (2008). Experiencing physical warmth promotes interpersonal warmth. Science, 322(5901), 606-607.

Listed material: Metaphoric frames and health - Hauser, D. J., & Schwarz, N. (2015). The war on prevention: Bellicose cancer metaphors hurt (some) prevention intentions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41(1), 66-77.

Listed material: Hauser, D. J., & Schwarz, N. (2020). The war on prevention II: Battle metaphors undermine cancer treatment and prevention and do not increase vigilance. Health communication, 35(13), 1698-1704. - Hauser, D. J., Nesse, R. M., & Schwarz, N. (2017). Lay theories and metaphors of health and illness. In Zedelius C., Muller, B., & Schooler J. W. (Eds.) The science of lay theories: How beliefs shape our culture, cognition, and health. (pp. 341-354). Springer. - Hendricks, R. K., Demjén, Z., Semino, E., & Boroditsky, L. (2018). Emotional implications of metaphor: Consequences of metaphor framing for mindset about cancer. Metaphor and Symbol, 33(4), 267-279.

Listed material: Introduction to Distributional Semantics - Hauser, D. J., & Schwarz, N. (2016). Semantic prosody and judgment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145(7), 882. - Hauser, D. J., & Schwarz, N. (2018). How seemingly innocuous words can bias judgment: Semantic prosody and impression formation. Journal of experimental social psychology, 75, 11-18. - http://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-word2vec/ - Lupyan, G., & Lewis, M. (2019). From words-as-mappings to words-as-cues: The role of language in semantic knowledge. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 34(10), 1319-1337. - Thompson, B., Roberts, S. G., & Lupyan, G. (2020). Cultural influences on word meanings revealed through large-scale semantic alignment. Nature Human Behaviour, 4(10), 1029-1038.

Listed material: Distributional semantics and bias - Lewis, M., & Lupyan, G. (2020). Gender stereotypes are reflected in the distributional structure of 25 languages. Nature human behaviour, 4(10), 1021-1028. - Caliskan, A., Bryson, J. J., & Narayanan, A. (2017). Semantics derived automatically from language corpora contain human-like biases. Science, 356(6334), 183-186. - Caliskan, A., & Lewis, M. (2020, July 16). Social biases in word embeddings and their relation to human cognition. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/d84kg - Garg, N., Schiebinger, L., Jurafsky, D., & Zou, J. (2018). Word embeddings quantify 100 years of gender and ethnic stereotypes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(16), E3635-

Required: There is no textbook for this class.

Listed material: Assessments due Jan 9 Welcome- icebreakers, class

Listed material: Week 2, Sept 13: Introduction to the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis - Boroditsky, L. (2011). How language shapes thought. Scientific American, 304(2), 62-65. - Whorf, B. L. (1978). The relation of habitual thought and behaviour to language (1939). In Language, thought, and reality: Selected writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf. MIT press. - Levinson, S. C. (1997). Language and cognition: The cognitive consequences of spatial description in Guugu Yimithirr. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 7(1), 98-131.

Listed material: Week 3, Sept 20: Sapir-Whorf and colours - Gilbert, A. L., Regier, T., Kay, P., & Ivry, R. B. (2008). Support for lateralization of the Whorf effect beyond the realm of color discrimination. Brain and language, 105(2), 91-98. - Regier, T., & Kay, P. (2009). Language, thought, and color: Whorf was half right. Trends in cognitive sciences, 13(10), 439-446. - Winawer, J., Witthoft, N., Frank, M. C., Wu, L., Wade, A. R., & Boroditsky, L. (2007). Russian blues reveal effects of language on color discrimination. Proceedings of the national academy of sciences, 104(19), 7780-7785. - Lupyan, G., Abdel Rahman, R., Boroditsky, L., & Clark, A. (2020, April 28). Effects of Language on Visual Perception. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/pztmc

Listed material: Week 4, Sept 27: Sapir-Whorf and time - Boroditsky, L. (2001). Does language shape thought?: Mandarin and English speakers' conceptions of time. Cognitive psychology, 43(1), 1-22. - Boroditsky, L., Fuhrman, O., & McCormick, K. (2011). Do English and Mandarin speakers think about time differently?. Cognition, 118(1), 123-129. - Casasanto, D. (2008). Who's afraid of the big bad Whorf? Crosslinguistic differences in temporal language and thought. Language learning, 58, 63-79. - Fuhrman, O., & Boroditsky, L. (2010). Cross‐cultural differences in mental representations of time: Evidence from an implicit nonlinguistic task. Cognitive science, 34(8), 1430-1451.

Listed material: Week 5, Oct 4: Introduction to conceptual metaphors - Landau, M. J., Meier, B. P., & Keefer, L. A. (2010). A metaphor-enriched social cognition. Psychological bulletin, 136(6), 1045. - Boroditsky, L., & Ramscar, M. (2002). The roles of body and mind in abstract thought. Psychological science, 13(2), 185-189. - Thibodeau, P. H., & Boroditsky, L. (2011). Metaphors we think with: The role of metaphor in reasoning. PloS one, 6(2), e16782. - Landau, M. J. (2018). Using metaphor to find meaning in life. Review of General Psychology, 22(1), 62-72.

Listed material: Week 6, Oct 18: Metaphors and sensory states - Meier, B. P., Hauser, D. J., Robinson, M. D., Friesen, C. K., & Schjeldahl, K. (2007). What's" up" with God? Vertical space as a representation of the divine. Journal of personality and social psychology, 93(5), 699. - Ackerman, J. M., Nocera, C. C., & Bargh, J. A. (2010). Incidental haptic sensations influence social judgments and decisions. Science, 328(5986), 1712-1715.

Listed material: Williams, L. E., & Bargh, J. A. (2008). Experiencing physical warmth promotes interpersonal warmth. Science, 322(5901), 606-607. - Hauser, D. J., & Schwarz, N. (2020). Situated embodiment: When physical weight does and does not inform judgments of importance. Social Psychological and Personality Science,

Listed material: Week 7, Oct 25: Metaphoric frames and health - Hauser, D. J., & Schwarz, N. (2015). The war on prevention: Bellicose cancer metaphors hurt (some) prevention intentions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41(1), 66-77. - Hauser, D. J., & Schwarz, N. (2020). The war on prevention II: Battle metaphors undermine cancer treatment and prevention and do not increase vigilance. Health communication, 35(13), 1698-1704. - Hauser, D. J., Nesse, R. M., & Schwarz, N. (2017). Lay theories and metaphors of health and illness. In Zedelius C., Muller, B., & Schooler J. W. (Eds.) The science of lay theories: How beliefs shape our culture, cognition, and health. (pp. 341-354). Springer. - Hendricks, R. K., Demjén, Z., Semino, E., & Boroditsky, L. (2018). Emotional implications of metaphor: Consequences of metaphor framing for mindset about cancer. Metaphor and Symbol, 33(4), 267-279.

Listed material: Week 8, Nov 1: Distributional semantics and collocation - Hauser, D. J., & Schwarz, N. (2016). Semantic prosody and judgment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145(7), 882. - Hauser, D. J., & Schwarz, N. (2018). How seemingly innocuous words can bias judgment: Semantic prosody and impression formation. Journal of experimental social psychology, 75, 11-18. - Stubbs, M. (1995). Collocations and semantic profiles: On the cause of the trouble with quantitative studies. Functions of language, 2(1), 23-55. - Xiao, R., & McEnery, T. (2006). Collocation, semantic prosody, and near synonymy: A cross- linguistic perspective. Applied linguistics, 27(1), 103-129.

Listed material: Week 9, Nov 8: Distributional semantics and word embeddings - http://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-word2vec/ - Landauer, T. K., & Dumais, S. T. (1997). A solution to Plato's problem: The latent semantic analysis theory of acquisition, induction, and representation of knowledge. Psychological review, 104(2), 211. - Lupyan, G., & Lewis, M. (2019). From words-as-mappings to words-as-cues: The role of language

Required: There is no textbook for this class.

Listed material: Week 1: Jan 11 Welcome Boroditsky (2011) Week 2: Jan 18 Intro to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis Whorf (1939) Levinson (1997) Week 3: Jan 25 Sapir-Whorf and colors Gilbert et al (2008) Regier & Kay (2009) Winawer et al (2007) Lupyan et al (2020) Week 4: Feb 1 Sapir-Whorf and time Boroditsky (2001) Casasanto (2008) Boroditsky et al (2011) Fuhrman & Boroditsky (2010) Week 5: Feb 8 Intro to conceptual metaphors Landau et al (2010) Boroditsky & Ramscar (2002) Thibodeau & Borditsky (2011) Landau (2018)

Listed material: Week 1, Jan 11: Welcome, read the syllabus plz and ask questions! - Boroditsky, L. (2011). How language shapes thought. Scientific American, 304(2), 62-65.

Listed material: Week 2 Jan 18: Introduction to the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis - Whorf, B. L. (1978). The relation of habitual thought and behaviour to language (1939). In Language, thought, and reality: Selected writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf. MIT press. - Levinson, S. C. (1997). Language and cognition: The cognitive consequences of spatial description in Guugu Yimithirr. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 7(1), 98-131.

Listed material: Week 3, Jan 25: Sapir-Whorf and colours - Gilbert, A. L., Regier, T., Kay, P., & Ivry, R. B. (2008). Support for lateralization of the Whorf effect beyond the realm of color discrimination. Brain and language, 105(2), 91-98. - Regier, T., & Kay, P. (2009). Language, thought, and color: Whorf was half right. Trends in cognitive sciences, 13(10), 439-446. - Winawer, J., Witthoft, N., Frank, M. C., Wu, L., Wade, A. R., & Boroditsky, L. (2007). Russian blues reveal effects of language on color discrimination. Proceedings of the national academy of sciences, 104(19), 7780-7785. - Lupyan, G., Abdel Rahman, R., Boroditsky, L., & Clark, A. (2020, April 28). Effects of Language on Visual Perception. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/pztmc

Listed material: Week 4, Feb 1: Sapir-Whorf and time - Boroditsky, L. (2001). Does language shape thought?: Mandarin and English speakers' conceptions of time. Cognitive psychology, 43(1), 1-22. - Boroditsky, L., Fuhrman, O., & McCormick, K. (2011). Do English and Mandarin speakers think about time differently?. Cognition, 118(1), 123-129. - Casasanto, D. (2008). Who's afraid of the big bad Whorf? Crosslinguistic differences in temporal language and thought. Language learning, 58, 63-79. - Fuhrman, O., & Boroditsky, L. (2010). Cross‐cultural differences in mental representations of time: Evidence from an implicit nonlinguistic task. Cognitive science, 34(8), 1430-1451.

Listed material: Week 5, Feb 8: Introduction to conceptual metaphors - Landau, M. J., Meier, B. P., & Keefer, L. A. (2010). A metaphor-enriched social cognition. Psychological bulletin, 136(6), 1045. - Boroditsky, L., & Ramscar, M. (2002). The roles of body and mind in abstract thought. Psychological science, 13(2), 185-189. - Thibodeau, P. H., & Boroditsky, L. (2011). Metaphors we think with: The role of metaphor in reasoning. PloS one, 6(2), e16782. - Landau, M. J. (2018). Using metaphor to find meaning in life. Review of General Psychology, 22(1), 62-72.

Listed material: Week 6, Feb 22: Metaphors and sensory states - Meier, B. P., Hauser, D. J., Robinson, M. D., Friesen, C. K., & Schjeldahl, K. (2007). What's" up" with God? Vertical space as a representation of the divine. Journal of personality and social psychology, 93(5), 699. - Ackerman, J. M., Nocera, C. C., & Bargh, J. A. (2010). Incidental haptic sensations influence social judgments and decisions. Science, 328(5986), 1712-1715.

Listed material: Williams, L. E., & Bargh, J. A. (2008). Experiencing physical warmth promotes interpersonal warmth. Science, 322(5901), 606-607. - Hauser, D. J., & Schwarz, N. (2020). Situated embodiment: When physical weight does and does not inform judgments of importance. Social Psychological and Personality Science,

Listed material: Week 7, March 1: Metaphoric frames and health - Hauser, D. J., & Schwarz, N. (2015). The war on prevention: Bellicose cancer metaphors hurt (some) prevention intentions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41(1), 66-77. - Hauser, D. J., & Schwarz, N. (2020). The war on prevention II: Battle metaphors undermine cancer treatment and prevention and do not increase vigilance. Health communication, 35(13), 1698-1704. - Hauser, D. J., Nesse, R. M., & Schwarz, N. (2017). Lay theories and metaphors of health and illness. In Zedelius C., Muller, B., & Schooler J. W. (Eds.) The science of lay theories: How beliefs shape our culture, cognition, and health. (pp. 341-354). Springer. - Hendricks, R. K., Demjén, Z., Semino, E., & Boroditsky, L. (2018). Emotional implications of metaphor: Consequences of metaphor framing for mindset about cancer. Metaphor and Symbol, 33(4), 267-279.

Listed material: Week 8, March 8: Distributional semantics and collocation - Hauser, D. J., & Schwarz, N. (2016). Semantic prosody and judgment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145(7), 882. - Hauser, D. J., & Schwarz, N. (2018). How seemingly innocuous words can bias judgment: Semantic prosody and impression formation. Journal of experimental social psychology, 75, 11-18. - Stubbs, M. (1995). Collocations and semantic profiles: On the cause of the trouble with quantitative studies. Functions of language, 2(1), 23-55. - Xiao, R., & McEnery, T. (2006). Collocation, semantic prosody, and near synonymy: A cross- linguistic perspective. Applied linguistics, 27(1), 103-129.

Listed material: Week 9, March 15: Distributional semantics and word embeddings - http://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-word2vec/ - Landauer, T. K., & Dumais, S. T. (1997). A solution to Plato's problem: The latent semantic analysis theory of acquisition, induction, and representation of knowledge. Psychological review, 104(2), 211. - Lupyan, G., & Lewis, M. (2019). From words-as-mappings to words-as-cues: The role of language in semantic knowledge. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 34(10), 1319-1337. -