Psychology 2430
Psychological Approaches to Social Issues

Basics

Grades

Lecture Notes

0. Introduction
1. Self-Righteous Mind
2. Climate Change
3. Terrorism
4. Racism
​5. Economic Inequality
​6. Artificial Intelligence

Podcasts
dates listed as tentative may change

1.   Video killed the video star. due 6 September
2.   The golden rule. due 16 September
3.   The birth of climate change denial. due 18 September
4.   Fu-go.(alternative link) due 27 September
5.   How to be less terrible at predicting the future. due 7 October
6.   The culture inside. due 11 October
7.   Stereothreat. due 23 October 
8.   Miss Buchanan's period of adjustment. due 25 October
9.   My little hundred million. due 13 November
10. The containment plan. due 18 November
​11. Driverless dilemma. tentatively due 25 November
12. Can we build AI without losing control over it? tentatively due 29 November