Elliot Aronson || Not by Chance Alone

The Psychology Podcast

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4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2017

⏱️ 71 minutes

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"Life is full of lessons, and 'playing the hand you're dealt as well as you can play it' is a good one." -- Elliot Aronson Today I'm incredibly excited to welcome the legendary Elliot Aronson to The Psychology Podcast. Aronson is an eminent social psychologist who is best known for his groundbreaking experiments on the theory of cognitive dissonance and for his invention of the Jigsaw Classroom, a highly effective cooperative teaching technique which facilitates learning while reducing interethnic hostility and prejudice. He is the only person in the 120-year history of the American Psychological Association to have won all three of its major awards: for writing, for teaching, and for research, and in 2007 he received the William James Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Association for Psychological Science, in which he was cited as the scientist who "fundamentally changed the way we look at everyday life.” Over the course of our in-depth and wide-ranging discussion, Aronson: Shares stories and key lessons from his famous mentors–Abraham Maslow and Leon Festinger–and how each of the two altered the course of his life, Illuminates with examples some of his most fascinating findings in the field of Social Psychology, Offers his take on the replication crisis and on what he calls the "TED-ification" of Psychology, Imparts on us wisdom he's gathered not just as a researcher and psychologist but also as a father and brother. It was a pleasure to have a legend in the field on the show for such a comprehensive conversation, filled with stories and lessons. Enjoy! Links: Elliot Aronson's memoir, Not By Chance Alone: My Life as a Social Psychologist, is available on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Not-Chance-Alone-Social-Psychologist/dp/0465031390 [Book] To learn more about Aronson's highly effective Jigsaw Classroom (from outcomes to implementation) visit https://www.jigsaw.org/ [Resource] The Social Animal - Through vivid narrative, lively presentations of important research, and intriguing examples, Aronson's textbook offers a brief, compelling introduction to modern social psychology --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-psychology-podcast/support

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the psychology podcast with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman where we give you insights into the mind, brain, behavior, and creativity.
0:07.0	Each episode will feature a new guest who will stimulate your mind and give you a greater understanding of yourself, others, and the world we live in.
0:14.3	Hopefully we'll also provide a glimpse into human possibility.
0:17.4	Thanks for listening and enjoy the podcast. The Dr. to have you on the show today. Thank you for taking the time to chat with me.
0:43.0	Good to be here, Scott. You have been through a lot. You lived through the Great Depression,
0:50.3	World War II, the McCarthy witch hunts, the Civil Rights Movement, and the years of sexual liberation,
0:56.0	all that must have had an impact on your work in social psychology.
1:00.0	Are we guess?
1:02.0	What do you think attracted you to social psychology?
1:05.0	Do you think, when you were a little kid,
1:07.0	do you remember just being fascinated with the way people treated each other
1:10.0	and things relating to social dynamics?
1:13.0	Yeah, well, you know, I grew up in a small city population about 30, 35,000,
1:21.0	Revere, Massachusetts, just northeast of Boston.
1:24.6	It was a blue collar city and it was very lently anti-Semitic.
1:30.2	And we lived in a neighborhood.
1:34.0	I think we were the only Jewish family in the immediate neighborhood.
1:38.2	And so my first real contact with social psychology was getting pushed around or beaten up on the
1:47.7	way home from Hebrew school at night.
1:50.2	So I sort of got acquainted with dynamics of prejudice when I was like nine years old.
1:56.8	I when these gangs of you know kids who were like 14 15 years old was sort of pushing me around and calling me dirty Jew, I was wondering why they hated Jews so much and
2:10.4	wondering why they hated me so much when they didn't even know me and wondering if they
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