Management & Social Psychology

Will & Moral Responsibility in Machines : Self-Driving Google Car

Since we’re in the topic of free will and the attributions of free will to agents, I was wondering whether people will ever be able to attribute will and moral responsibility to machines. A recent article by the New Yorker “Moral Machines” was the first time I encountered anything on the topic. It turns out [...]

Free Will : Interesting Findings in Social Psychology

Free will has up until quite recently been considered a philosophical issue. Some philosophers argued that free will exists, some argued that it doesn’t, and work has mainly been focused on trying to better define what free will means and to disentangle and relate free will to other concepts like determinism, fatalism, etc. In the [...]

Organizing & Sharing Research : Setup a Wiki

Ever since I began doing research in social psychology there were two very important issues I had to tackle – both answered with one simple solution – my own research Wiki.

The first critical issue was organization. It became apparent very early that I need a way to keep track of what I [...]

Personality In Class : Discussing Traits through Examples

Examples go a long way to make things clearer for the students. To liven things up in the class room and engage the students, it’s helpful to actually have your students think up examples in class, write those on the board in brainstorming style and then offer an example of your own as a wrap [...]

In-class experiments #4 : Deception & the Asch Conformity Experiment

Bringing real social psychology experiments into the classroom is one of the best ways of teaching psychology, but it’s never easy, especially when you need to apply deception in the classroom. But, I was able to pull it off.

One of the classic social psychology experiments was conducted by Asch (1951) on group conformity. [...]

Running Experiments with Amazon Mechanical Turk

I’ll start by saying that I think Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) and online markets offer no less than a revolution in experimental psychology. By now, I’ve already ran half a dozen successful experiments on MTurk and have come to consider it as one of the most important tools available to me as an experimental social [...]

Teaching Managerial Ethics : Content and In-class Exercises

Teaching ethics is tricky. It’s a highly complex topic and I’ve always debated with myself how to best approach this topic with under-grad students, especially when ethics isn’t a main topic in the course and there’s very limited time. Two of my research projects actually involve looking at unethical behavior and morality as the result [...]

Inclass Experiments #3 : Biases & Irrationality

To start off a class about social psychology or management I believe the best way is to dive right in and demonstrate to the students just how fragile our mind is with some very basic optical illusions and irrationality biases. It’s remarkable how easy these things are to demonstrate in class and the effect on [...]

Inclass Experiments #2 : In-group Out-group Bias

Inclass experiments are a great way to get students to learn about social psychology and management. Continuing my post series about social psychology inclass experiments, this next social psychology experiments is aimed at demonstrating the strong effects on the formation of cognition and affect regarding in-group versus out-group, even when the separation seems to be [...]

Inclass Experiments #1 : Goal Setting Theory

One of the best ways for students to learn about social psychology and management is to experience things first hand. In my "Introduction to Management" undergraduate course I ran several famous social psychology and management in-class experiments that demonstrate the material we studied in class.

As a first example, we did an inclass experiment in [...]

Management & Social Psychology

Organizing & Sharing Research : Setup a Wiki

Personality In Class : Discussing Traits through Examples

Inclass Experiments #3 : Biases & Irrationality

Inclass Experiments #1 : Goal Setting Theory

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