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What Setting Suits You?
Teaching: The fit between a person and their environment, or PE fit, can provide undergraduates with engaging, concrete examples of nature/nurture dynamics, causal reasoning, and the difference between main effects and interactions.
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The Paradox of Achieving Social Embeddedness Through Nonsocial Activities
Teaching: This lesson plan allows students to explore how humans meet social needs through nonsocial behaviors.
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How an Active Imagination Can Justify Moral Inconsistencies
Teaching: A classroom activity helps students understand how people stray from their moral values and beliefs.
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What Students Need to Know About Names: When the Need to Belong Backfires
Teaching: A scenario exercise can help students understand wind the psychological costs that people from marginalized groups suffer when they change their names to fit in.
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Reflecting on More than a Decade of Teaching Current Directions: Some Greatest Hits and Thanks to David Myers
Nathan DeWall and other Teaching Current Directions contributors express their gratitude for social psychologist David G. Myers and his lifelong commitment to psychological science.
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There’s No Ghost in the Machine: How AI Changes Our Views of Ourselves
Teaching: Try these classroom activities to clarify the myths and realities of artificial-intelligence capabilities.
