EASP Summer School 2010

Fabrizio Butera, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Antonis Gardikiotis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Gerassimos Prodromitis, Panteion University, Greece

Social psychology has long described learning as the result of social influence processes. The aim of this workshop is to study how social influence shapes learning by acting at several levels, from values (e.g. self-enhancement) to ideologies (e.g. meritocracy), from intergroup influences (e.g. stereotype threat) to intragroup influences (e.g. cooperation and competition). The workshop will offer the opportunity to review some of the major theories accounting for social influence in learning and to get acquainted with some of the most used methodologies in this area. The examples and the exercises will address important social mechanisms related to learning, as for example motivation, goals, assessment, and anti-social behaviors such as information withholding and cheating.

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