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Video Links:

1. Video 5.1: The Soldier’s Heart
Description: How are the men and women, who serve in the armed forces during wartime changed by their experiences? What is being done to address the social and psychological problems faced by soldiers? This program examines the costs incurred by veterans and considers what is being done (and what should be done) to support them.

2. Video 5.2: Agents of Socialization
Description: In this brief video from Khan Academy students are introduced to the core agents of socialization including family, peers, and education. How socialization influences our interactions with others and understanding of social norms is explored.

3. Video 5.3: The Socialization of Women and the Gender Pay Gap
Description: The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business brings us a lively discussion between two experts on how gender socialization has contributed to the gender pay gap. Solutions for addressing the gender pay gap structurally, with an eye on changing socialization, gender norms, and gender responsibilities are explored. 

Audio Links:

1. Audio 5.1: Checking More Than One Box: A Growing Multiracial Nation
Description: As the United States grows more diverse, more people identify as multiracial. Will the Census keep up?

2. Audio 5.2: Learning With Disabilities: One Effort to Shake Up the Classroom
Description: This clip explores the impact of keeping children with disabilities and children without disabilities together during the school day. In so doing, it describes the importance of socialization.

Web Links:

1. Web 5.1: The Society for Personality
Description: The Society for Personality and Social Psychology, with over 3,000 members, is the largest organization of social and personality psychologists in the world [self-description].

2. Web 5.2: NORC
Description: The General Social Survey (GSS): The GSS is a regular, ongoing omnibus personal interview survey of U.S. households conducted by the National Opinion Research Center. The first survey took place in 1972, and since then more than 40,000 respondents have answered more than 3,500 different questions. From Americans’ racial attitudes to the number of guns owned by women to musical preferences over a lifetime, the General Social Survey measures the trends in American attitudes, experiences, practices, and concerns [self-characterization]. 

3. Web 5.3: Implicit Association Test
Description: “It is well known that people don’t always ‘speak their minds,’ and it is suspected that people don't always ‘know their minds.’ Understanding such divergences is important to scientific psychology. This website presents a method that demonstrates the conscious-unconscious divergences much more convincingly than has been possible with previous methods. This new method is called the Implicit Association Test, or IAT for short.”

4. Web 5.4: Leading Men Age, But Their Love Interests Don’t
Description: Slate explores the ages of leading men in mainstream Hollywood films and how their compares with their love interests. Data on a variety of big name stars is presented along with a discussion of what this says regarding age, gender and the media.