Thomas Heinzen & Wind Goodfriend 
Case Studies for Teaching Social Psychology [PDF ebook] 
Critical Thinking and Application

Preface: To Students and Their Teachers
Chapter 1: How Do Social Psychologists Think?
To Wear or Not to Wear an Ineffective Mask: That Was the Question During the Coronavirus Pandemic
An Exercise About Sex and Social Interactionism
The Neighs Have It: Testing Theories With Experiments
A Painful Intuition: Bloodletting
Chapter 2: The Social Psychologist’s Toolbox
Crucial Experiments: Who’s Talking Now?
Ethnography: Gang Leader for a Day
Health Detective: The Missing Pump Handle
Witchcraft and False Confessions: Then and Now
Chapter 3: The Social Self
Phineas Gage: The Self With a Hole in His Head
The Changing Self: Identity of Transgender Individuals
The Disappearing Self: Lost Memory
The Pregnant Self: Does My Bump Look Big in This?
Chapter 4: Social Cognition
Intuition in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Dual Processing Medical Diagnoses
Girl or Boy? Gender Socialization Begins at Ultrasound
Sexual Scripts and Sexual Regrets
Chapter 5: Person Perception
“Tell Me the Truth—Am I Too Pretty?” Marilyn Monroe and the Halo Effect
From Street Kid to Magician: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Intellectual Bloomers: The Slow Creation of a Classic Study
The Rock in the Coffin: Terror Management Theory
Chapter 6: Attitudes and Persuasion
Cognitive Dissonance, Part I: Prelude to a Theory
Cognitive Dissonance, Part II: The Flying Saucer That Never Came
Understanding Drug Use: The Theory of Planned Behavior
Chapter 7: Social Influence
Obedience Plus: More Data From the Shock Experiments
Mods and Rockers: A Moral Panic
Big Fish Eat Small Fish: Social Coordination in a Violent World
Chapter 8: Group Processes
More Than a Game: The Prisoner’s Dilemma
Interpersonal Rejection: A Case Study of 14 School Shootings
On the Shoulders of Giantesses: The First Computer Programmers
Chapter 9: Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination
Economic Anxiety and the Illegal Deportation of U.S. Citizens
Intersectionality: Sojourner Truth
Environmental Psychology and Institutional Discrimination: What Happened at Erasmus High School?
Footnote 11: After the Doll Studies
Chapter 10: Helping and Prosocial Behavior
The Misunderstood Murder of Kitty Genovese: A Continuing Case Study
Zombie Wasps and Altruistic Vampire Bats
The Bacon Truce: Cooperation Despite War
The Subway Samaritan: The Mathematics of Relative Altruism
Chapter 11: Aggression
Doloreisa’s Story: Aggression, Prostitution, and Sex Trafficking
The Great Train Robbery: Violence as Entertainment
The Cinderella Effect
Chapter 12: Intimate Relationships
Religion and Marriage Counseling
Male Victims of Relationship Abuse
The Influence of Dating Technology
Happily Ever After: Ingredients to a Long, Happy Marriage
References
Index

Dr. Wind Goodfriend has been named Faculty of the Year three times in her 19 years as a professor at Buena Vista University. This distinction is the result of an all-student vote, and her General Psychology course was chosen as the “Most Recommended” individual class in the entire university by the BVU newspaper. She has also won the Wythe Award, one of the largest collegiate teaching prizes in the nation. She has written over a dozen book chapters about psychology in pop culture, four textbooks for Sage, three Audible audiobooks about psychology, dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles, and has published over 30 journal articles featuring her undergraduate students as the first author. She also wrote and “starred” in a docuseries about the psychology of cult manipulation for The Great Courses. Wind won the 2023 Undergraduate Teaching & Mentoring Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.