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| Posted by: | Scott Plous |
| Title/Position: | Professor |
| School/Organization: | Wesleyan University |
| Sent to listserv of: | SPSP, SPSSI |
| Date posted: | October 8th, 2008 |
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Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Apologies for cross-posting, but for those of you interested in the upcoming U.S. presidential election and world political affairs, I thought that you or your students might find the resources below useful.
Best regards,
Scott Plous
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THE ELECTION CHALLENGE
http://www.socialpsychology.org/teach/election.htm
If you're currently teaching U.S. students about persuasion or social influence, you are welcome to use or adapt "The Election Challenge" -- a nonpartisan teaching assignment in which students are challenged to persuade at least three people to vote for a U.S. presidential candidate of their choice, after which they submit a report describing the psychological strategies they used, the reactions people had, and the number of votes they secured for their candidate.
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VOTING INFORMATION PAGE
http://www.socialpsychology.org/vote/
This page offers state-by-state U.S. voting information and web links, including links to online voter registration sites and Google Maps' new voter information service.
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ELECTION COVERAGE, CAMPAIGN VIDEOS, AND MORE
http://www.socialpsychology.org/social.htm#voting
http://www.socialpsychology.org/siteweek.htm#week6
These pages link to worldwide election coverage, voting research, campaign TV commercials, and YouTube videos that illustrate central and peripheral routes to persuasion, fear appeals, and other psychological phenomena.
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VOTE BACK HOME
http://www.votebackhome.com/
http://www.longdistancevoter.org/absentee_ballot_deadlines
VoteBackHome.com is a grassroots effort to help students from U.S. swing states vote by absentee ballot while away at college, thereby increasing the impact of their vote. Although time is running out, there are still a number of swing states that offer absentee ballots.
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COUNTER-INTUITION DISCUSSION GROUP
http://www.washingtonpost.com/counterintuition
This new discussion group is managed by Shankar Vedantam, Washington Post reporter and Human Behavior columnist, who created it as an international site to discuss how the social sciences in general, and social psychology in particular, can inform the news. All SPSSI and SPSP listserv subscribers are invited to visit and post their opinions, observations, and reactions.
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