{"id":433,"date":"2016-12-10T00:27:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T00:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/?p=433"},"modified":"2016-12-10T00:27:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T00:27:12","slug":"the-personal-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/2016\/12\/10\/the-personal-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"The Personal Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span>ntroduction to Psychology is about to begin. A student in the front row of the studio audience cues her 23 classmates to give her professors a rousing cheer. Cameras are rolling as the rest of the class \u2014 all 910 of them \u2014 tune in from their dorm rooms, coffee shops, and study rooms at the <strong>University of Texas <\/strong>flagship campus.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next 75 minutes, they\u2019ll watch a &#8220;weather report&#8221; that maps personal stereotypes by regions of the country (red zones splashed across parts of the Northeast mark areas of high neuroticism), and listen to an expert flown in from <strong>Stanford University<\/strong> discuss what someone\u2019s Facebook &#8220;likes&#8221; reveal about her personality.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ll participate in a lab exercise that matches students from the studio audience with their taste in music and groan when the burly guy who looks like a country music fan actually favors Lady Gaga. They\u2019ll take a pop quiz and watch a video clip of their professor snooping around someone\u2019s office for keys to his personality.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to a version of the giant intro class that\u2019s almost guaranteed to keep students awake.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/The-Personal-Lecture\/238559\">Read the entire post here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction to Psychology is about to begin. A student in the front row of the studio audience cues her 23 classmates to give her professors a rousing cheer. Cameras are rolling as the rest of the class \u2014 all 910 of them \u2014 tune in from their dorm rooms, coffee shops, and study rooms at&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/2016\/12\/10\/the-personal-lecture\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}