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===Hibbing, Chapter 5: Do You See What I See?===
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==1: SEP 2: Course Introduction==
  
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:*Attention Studies research on Political difference:
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:*Welcome - personal introduction and welcome.
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===About the Course (technical information and course management)===
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:*Course Websites: Wiki & Courses.alfino.org (linked from alfino.org), Sharepoint site (link at main course wiki page).
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:*Use of pseudonyms - Saints and animals
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:*Use of peer review and peer evaluation
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:*Student choice in work and grading scheme - Default grade scheme shows ranges for grade weights.  You will be able to choose optional assignments and assign them weight in your grading scheme.  (See courses.alfino.org)
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:*Transparency in grade information.  Never give out your Saint name.  Customer service will never ask you for your Saint name. A friendly grade curve gives you good information about your performance while reducing grade stress. 
  
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:*Rorschach tests. seem to trigger different attentional and other biases.
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===About the Course (course content and research questions)===
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:*What's so exciting about studying food deeply at this time?  Start a list....
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:*[[Philosophy of Food Course Research Questions]]
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:*Disciplines represented in the course: gastronomy, food history, bio-history, evolutionary psych, economics, politics, nutrition, microbiology, soil agronomy, food ethics.
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:*Major Course Topics (see reading list): Microbiome, Macronutrition, Dietary Guidelines, Western Industrial Diet, Gastronomy, Food philosophy, Food Histories, Plant Intelligence, Food and Animal Ethics, Environment and Agriculture, Food and Power, Food and Religion, Organic Diets.
  
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:*Claim in this chapter: Differences in political temperament are tied to differences in a variety of perception and procession patterns prompted by stimuli.  Liberals and conservatives see the world differently.
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===Succeeding in the Course and Assignments===
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:*Prep Cycle - Monitor time commitments and results early on. 
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:*Keep Course Research Questions in Mind -
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:*The best student writing shows the cumulative effect of deep reading, active critical thinking, and reflection.  
  
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:The Eyes Have it
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*'''Required Assignments and Default Grade Weights for your Grading Scheme'''
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:*Final Paper 10-30%
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:*Final Essay 10-20%
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:*Points 50-70%
  
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:*eye movement research: gaze cuing test reveal sensitivity to social cues, but tend to be cited as averages. lots of variation.
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*'''Points Assignments'''
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:*1. Student Food biographies (5) Assigned 9/1, due 9/9
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:*2. USDGS and Me (10) Assigned 9/16, due 9/18
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:*3. Carbohydrate Worksheet (10) Assigned 10/5
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:*4. Culinary Cosmos Pantry Photos (5) Assigned and due 10/7
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:*5. Assessing Agriculture 600 words (20) Peer reviewed: Assigned 10/21, writing due 10/23, reviews due 10/28, backevals due TBD
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:*6. Fats Worksheet (10) Assigned and due 10/28
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:*7. Ethics of Eating (20) 800 words Peer reviewed: Assigned 11/4, writing due 11/8, reviews due 11/15, backevals due TBD
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:*8. Proteins Worksheet (10) Assigned and due 11/9
  
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:*research question: Are liberals more susceptible to gaze cuing than conservatives?  Yes. liberals slow down under miscuing, but not conservatives.  liberal are more sensitive to social context, conservatives to rules.  121: not necessarily one better than the other.  But, interestingly (122) conservatives and liberals prefer their own attentional biases (at least weakly)!  (Speculate here.)
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===Food Biographies - (Points, ungraded, short writing, reflection) ===
  
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:Fitting Round Pigs into Square Holes 122
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:*Please write a paragraph in answer to the following questions by '''September 9, 2020, 11:59pm.'''
  
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:*categorization tests allow us to see variations in cognitive temperament.  hard categorizers vs. soft.  Conservatives / liberals.  124: conservatives more likely to lock onto a task and complete it in a fashion that is both definitive and consistent with instructions. 
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::*Topic: What kind of eater are you? How would you describe your relationship to food?
  
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:Italian researcher Luciana Carraro, why do some people tend to pay attention to negative words over positive words?  Used a Stroop Task measuring delay in reporting font color of negative words. Strong correlation with political orientation. "conservatives have a strong vigilence toward negative stimuli." Wasn't so much the valuation placed on negative words, but that negative stimuli triggered more attentional resources.
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:*Here are some prompts for you to consider as you prepare your food biographies:
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::*How would you describe your diet? What categories of foods will you eat or not?  On principle or preference?
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::*Do you like foods related to your ethnicity?  Do you cook?
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::*How important or prominent is food in your memory as a child or your current life or both?
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::*Do you engage in food related social media activity?
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::*Are you a good cook?  Do you dance when you cook?
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::*Did your parents or guardians cook from scratch for you? Did they cook? Did you learn to cook?
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::*How knowledgeable are you about nutrition? Is your experience of food connected to concerns about nutrition and dietary disease or not so much?
  
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:*Same researchers did a Dot Probe Test (measuring speed in identifying a gray dot on a postive or negative image. Assumption that speed equates with attentional disposition toward the stimuli). Liberals a bit quicker with positive images, conservatives with negative.
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:**[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeZ4Tb0aeYnbRQ5bFHbq1kaHYRCj6vq_VW2fEhikmCgViXttQ/viewform?usp=sf_link Follow this link to a google form when you are ready to post].
  
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:*Hibbing et. al. wanted to replicate the Italian research.  Used a Flanker Task.  (measuring speed in reporting a feature of an image when flanked by two images congruent or incongruent to the main image.  Assumption is that the less you are slowed down by incongruence, the more attentional resources you had for the image.)  Replicated typical results: we are all faster with angry faces, for example.  Conservative less impacted by the angry faces.  Both groups reacted the same to happy faces.
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===To Do List from 1st Day===
  
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:*Make sure you can find the three course websites and that you understand what information and tools each provides.
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:What Are You Looking At? 129
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:*Fill out the first day food survey (on main course wiki page)
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:*Fill out "Roster Information" form (on main course wiki page)
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:*Eye tracking attentional studies.  Their research measured "dwell time" - time spent looking at an image.  in a study, subjects are shown a group of images.  General bias toward negative images.
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:*Browse the top 8 links on the main course wiki page
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Theorized as having survival value.  Conservatives spend a lot more time on negative images and quick to fix on negative images.  Some weak evidence that liberals focus more on positive images, but sig. results concerned differentials.
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:*Look out for readings attached to an email.  You will need these for our next class
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:*Email me if you would like to attend class in person next time.
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:Perception is Reality -- But is it real?
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:*Keep an eye out for Food News!
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:*Since liberals and conservatives value positive and negative images in the same way, you might conclude that they see the same world but pay attention to parts of it with different degrees of interest or attention.  But Hibbing et. al. are not so sure.  In a study, they asked libs and cons to evaluate pos/neg their view of the status quo on six policy dimensions (134).  They seem to assess the reality differently, '''they see different policies at work in the same society''', not just attending more to some stimuli.  '''Political difference might not be difference in preference, but in perception.'''
 
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:*They also did some research on ranking degree of negativity of images and, unlike the Italian research, conservatives did rank negative images more negatively.  In another study (135-6), researchers found that conservatives ranked faces as more dominant and threatening than liberals. 
 
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:You're full of Beans
 
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:*BeanFest -- a research game in which test subjects try to earn points by deciding whether to accept or reject a bean with an unknown point value.  Based on personality, some subjects are more exploratory (accept more beans and get more information), while others are conservative.  But political orientation also predicts strategy.  Shook and Fazio see the result as indicative of differences in data acquisition strategies and learning styles.  Interesting follow-up analysis based on giving test subjects a "final exam" on the bean values.  Similar scores, but different patterns of classification. 
 
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:*139: good summary paragraph: "New bean? What the hell, say the liberals, let's give it a whirl"  Roughly equal scores on the game and exam.   
 
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:*exploratory behavior and related differences in valuing everyday ethical situations, like forgetting to return a CD.  differing attitudes toward science and religion.
 

Revision as of 21:06, 2 September 2020

1: SEP 2: Course Introduction

  • Welcome - personal introduction and welcome.

About the Course (technical information and course management)

  • Course Websites: Wiki & Courses.alfino.org (linked from alfino.org), Sharepoint site (link at main course wiki page).
  • Use of pseudonyms - Saints and animals
  • Use of peer review and peer evaluation
  • Student choice in work and grading scheme - Default grade scheme shows ranges for grade weights. You will be able to choose optional assignments and assign them weight in your grading scheme. (See courses.alfino.org)
  • Transparency in grade information. Never give out your Saint name. Customer service will never ask you for your Saint name. A friendly grade curve gives you good information about your performance while reducing grade stress.

About the Course (course content and research questions)

  • What's so exciting about studying food deeply at this time? Start a list....
  • Philosophy of Food Course Research Questions
  • Disciplines represented in the course: gastronomy, food history, bio-history, evolutionary psych, economics, politics, nutrition, microbiology, soil agronomy, food ethics.
  • Major Course Topics (see reading list): Microbiome, Macronutrition, Dietary Guidelines, Western Industrial Diet, Gastronomy, Food philosophy, Food Histories, Plant Intelligence, Food and Animal Ethics, Environment and Agriculture, Food and Power, Food and Religion, Organic Diets.

Succeeding in the Course and Assignments

  • Prep Cycle - Monitor time commitments and results early on.
  • Keep Course Research Questions in Mind -
  • The best student writing shows the cumulative effect of deep reading, active critical thinking, and reflection.
  • Required Assignments and Default Grade Weights for your Grading Scheme
  • Final Paper 10-30%
  • Final Essay 10-20%
  • Points 50-70%
  • Points Assignments
  • 1. Student Food biographies (5) Assigned 9/1, due 9/9
  • 2. USDGS and Me (10) Assigned 9/16, due 9/18
  • 3. Carbohydrate Worksheet (10) Assigned 10/5
  • 4. Culinary Cosmos Pantry Photos (5) Assigned and due 10/7
  • 5. Assessing Agriculture 600 words (20) Peer reviewed: Assigned 10/21, writing due 10/23, reviews due 10/28, backevals due TBD
  • 6. Fats Worksheet (10) Assigned and due 10/28
  • 7. Ethics of Eating (20) 800 words Peer reviewed: Assigned 11/4, writing due 11/8, reviews due 11/15, backevals due TBD
  • 8. Proteins Worksheet (10) Assigned and due 11/9

Food Biographies - (Points, ungraded, short writing, reflection)

  • Please write a paragraph in answer to the following questions by September 9, 2020, 11:59pm.
  • Topic: What kind of eater are you? How would you describe your relationship to food?
  • Here are some prompts for you to consider as you prepare your food biographies:
  • How would you describe your diet? What categories of foods will you eat or not? On principle or preference?
  • Do you like foods related to your ethnicity? Do you cook?
  • How important or prominent is food in your memory as a child or your current life or both?
  • Do you engage in food related social media activity?
  • Are you a good cook? Do you dance when you cook?
  • Did your parents or guardians cook from scratch for you? Did they cook? Did you learn to cook?
  • How knowledgeable are you about nutrition? Is your experience of food connected to concerns about nutrition and dietary disease or not so much?

To Do List from 1st Day

  • Make sure you can find the three course websites and that you understand what information and tools each provides.
  • Fill out the first day food survey (on main course wiki page)
  • Fill out "Roster Information" form (on main course wiki page)
  • Browse the top 8 links on the main course wiki page
  • Look out for readings attached to an email. You will need these for our next class
  • Email me if you would like to attend class in person next time.
  • Keep an eye out for Food News!
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