Confronting discrimination and prejudice
Encourage students to explore biases and stereotypes with this group of ABC News segments. Each scenario puts actors into exchanges with unwitting bystanders, generating a wide range of responses - from overt hostility towards other races and cultur...
Opposing Aggression and Bullying
Initiate lectures and class dialogue with this cluster of ABC News segments on violence, aggressive behavior, and crime. In each scenario, actors draw unassuming spectators into tense and often disturbing situations—with a broad spectrum of result...
Charisma in Politics: Analyzing Body Language
Furrowed brows, widened eyes, clenched teeth—such signals reveal a great deal about our leaders, and they also influence our reactions to media images. This program investigates ways in which facial expressions and nonverbal communication determin...
Classic Studies in Psychology
This program brings to life five of psychology’s most significant studies: Bandura’s Bobo Doll Experiment, 1961; Milgram’s Study of Obedience, 1963; Ainsworth’s Strange Situation Experiment, 1971 and 1978; Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experi...
Psychology of Prejudice
This video explores the psychological processes behind prejudice, considers important historic and contemporary research regarding prejudice, and discusses social and cultural factors that lead to the development of prejudices. It offers techniques ...
Standing up as a citizen
Spark class discussion on civic responsibility with this compilation of ABC News segments. Each scenario involves onlookers who - unaware that they are observing actors in staged situations - exhibit a variety of responses, from complacency to outra...
Game theory: lost in New York
What if twelve strangers were deposited in separate locations all over New York City and ordered to find each other - without being told where to look? This ABC News program presents an intriguing psychological puzzle involving participants who must...