MPCT304-1 (Psychology) Professor Floyd Rudmin

Course: Cognitive History

Teacher: Floyd Rudmin

Contact: email: frudmin@psyk.uit.no

office: 7764-5953


LECTURE PLAN

Oct. 14:
1st hr: Introduction to cognitive histor
2nd hr: Sub-disciplines that study history
3rd hr: Discussion seminar

Oct. 21:
1st hr: Classic misbelief: Aristotle, Bacon, Euler, Boole, Bayes
2nd hr: Fallacies in historical writing (from David Fischer, 1970)
3rd hr: Discussion seminar: Isreali vs. Palistinian beliefs

Oct. 28:
1st hr: Cognitive errors: from decision theory
2nd hr: Cognitive errors: from social psychology
3rd hr: Discussion seminar

Nov. 1:
1st hr: Blind-eye behaviour
2nd hr: Freudian theory
3rd hr: Discussion seminar:

Nov. 4:
1st hr: Sources of history: text books, journalism
2nd hr: Sources of history: film, fiction
3rd hr: Discussion seminar

Nov. 11:
1st hr: History & ethnicity
2nd hr: History & religion
3rd hr: Discussion seminar:


Cognitive History Reading List

* Rudmin, F. (1997) Questions of U.S. Hostility Towards Canada: A Cognitive History of Blind-Eye Perception

Ignatieff, M. (1993). Blood and Belonging. London: Chatto & Windus.

* Moshinsky, A., & Bar-Hillel, M. (2002). Where did 1850 happen first - In America or in Europe. Psychological Science, 13 (1), 20-26.

* Kimball, J. (1984). The influence of ideology on interpretive disagreement: A report on a survey of diplomatic, military and peace historians on the causes of 20th century US wars. History Teacher, 17 (3), 355-383.

* Rudmin, F. (in press). Why iconoclastic information is unbelievable: A survey of historians' disbeliefs.