Call for Entries: Noba Psychology 2015 Student Video Award

Call for Entries: Noba Psychology 2015 Student Video Award Deadline: March 27th, 2015 Noba challenges students to take the science of psychology and bring it to life in creative and memorable ways. We want you to take learning in an active new direction and bring other students with you. The 2015 Student Video Award gives students a chance to jump-start their own learning experience by creating videos that will later become a part of the learning process for other psychology students around the world. The focus in 2015 is Social Influence. We invite you to pick any of the fascinating topics in either of the two Noba modules below and then create a short (3-minutes or less) video that will help other students understand, appreciate and remember what you've presented. Here are the modules to focus on: Persuasion: So Easily Fooled By Robert V. Levine Persuasion has been defined as "the process by which a message induces change in beliefs, attitudes, or behaviors". It can take a multitude of forms with profoundly different consequences. It may, for example, differ in whether it targets public compliance or private acceptance, is short-term or long-term, whether it involves slowly escalating commitments or sudden interventions and, most of all, in the benevolence of its intentions. When persuasion is well-meaning, we might call it education. When it is manipulative, it might be called mind control. Conformity and Obedience By J...
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