Browse Exhibits (131 total)
How 2020 Will Impact the Future of the U.S.: Rising Collectivism Due to COVID-19, and the In-Group Bias of Political Parties
Predictions of how 2020 will change culture in the United States.
Segment 1: Introduction
Below is a link to an audio file of an interactive podcast that can be opened in a seperate tab before further exploring the exhibit. The podcast discusses evolved cultural behaviors in societies over time as a result of high pathogen prevalence (otherwise known as diseases) in a geographical region. Predictions for similar or different changes to occur in American culture after the COVID-19 pandemic will be based on the same constructs addressed in the empirical research.
The audio can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iWAwat6ru5u3Xkf7LMehwCEdNlPwfxhU/view?usp=sharing
How COVID-19 will change American culture with the assistance of the behavioral immune system
This exhibit will provide a visualization for the audience to follow along with as they listen to my podcast, How COVID-19 will change American culture with the assistance of the behavioral immune system.
Cultural Change in America: The Shift Toward an Independent Self and its Impact on the Climate Change Crisis
This exhibit identifies the cultural changes that have been taking place in America, and the implications they have on the climate crisis. Cultural psychology aims to understand how culture shapes societies and identifies the underlying mechanisms that separate cultures from one another. The climate crisis is the term used to describe the drastic change in weather patterns caused by pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, that tear holes in Earth’s atmosphere. This has resulted in global warming, with the increased rise in temperature causing wildfires, droughts, hurricanes, and typhoons. Cultural changes from collectivism (orientation in which people view the self as interconnected with others) to individualism (orientation in which people view the self as autonomous) suggest the continued decline of climatic problems. Listen along to my podcast while I walk you through insightful evidence in the form of excepts and media that I used to argue my view.
The Dark Side: A Look Into Technology and the Future
This exhibit discusses how technology could potentially impact our future. We get deeper look into the world of technology and the dark side that comes with it. Using previous research, predictions can be made on what we expect to see in our near future. This exhibit highlights social media, children's cognition and social skills, robots in the job industry, and the world of virtual reality. To listen along to this exhibit, play the podcast found on the next page.
The Cambodian Genocide: The Blood & The Bandage
The purpose of this exhibit is to examine the immense degrees of violence that transpired during the Cambodian Genocide, particularly the escalation of violence over such a short period of time. Following the discussion of violence, this exhibit will discuss the small acts of peace that contributed to the fall of the Communist regime. Finally, actions that could have been taken in order to prevent or decrease the caliber of violence. To listen along with the exhibit, continue to the next page.
Music:
Art of Silence, Uniq (No Copyright) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V-pYCGx0C4
External Research:
Hinton, Alexander Laban. “Agents of Death: Explaining the Cambodian Genocide in Terms of Psychosocial Dissonance.” American Anthropologist, vol. 98, no. 4, 1996, pp. 818–831. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/681888.
Hinton, Alexander Laban. “Why Did You Kill?: The Cambodian Genocide and the Dark Side of Face and Honor.” The Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 57, no. 1, 1998, pp. 93–122. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2659025.
Staub, Ervin. “Genocide and Mass Killing: Origins, Prevention, Healing and Reconciliation.” Political Psychology, vol. 21, no. 2, 2000, pp. 367–382. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3791796.
Uncovering the Dark and Light In the Holocaust
This exhibit will seek to explain why the levels of violence during the Holocaust were so severe, causing an increase in the death toll. Along with the violence, this exhibit will also explain the peace that took place during the Holocaust. Last, this page will address what peaceful acts could have potentially occurred, which would have resulted in a decrease in the death toll. Click here to listen to my podcast and follow along!
Music from: ROYALTY FREE MUSIC by BENSOUND. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.bensound.com/.
The Sierra Leone Civil War, a Crisis of Youth
This exhibit will take you through the Civil War in Sierra Leone and give you an inside look at the psychological effects the war had on the child soldiers and youth population in the country. The Civil War of Sierra Leone here is categorized as a youth crisis. Throughout this exhibit we will be focusing on how the child militants were able to commit such atrocities, how participating in the conflict affected them, how their readjustment back into society has played out, and analyzing whether the Sierra Leone Civil War could've been prevented.
Standing Rock Protests
The Standing Rock protests were the culmination of a long history of genocide against Native Americans, and that is why it is not a surprise that the resulted in such violence.