Researching the Virtues Project Derek Patton Child & Family Psychologist, reg. Australia PhD...
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Researching the Virtues Project Derek Patton Child & Family Psychologist, reg. Australia PhD candidate, University of Melbourne Dedicated to the Piscataway and Conoy tribes of Maryland, the traditional Spiritual Companioners of this land, their and our ancestors and to all past stolen children from any race, any place
Researching the Virtues Project Derek Patton Child & Family Psychologist, reg. Australia PhD candidate, University of Melbourne Dedicated to the Piscataway
Researching the Virtues Project Derek Patton Child & Family
Psychologist, reg. Australia PhD candidate, University of Melbourne
Dedicated to the Piscataway and Conoy tribes of Maryland, the
traditional Spiritual Companioners of this land, their and our
ancestors and to all past stolen children from any race, any
place
Slide 2
International Virtues Project Research Network Coordinator,
Chris Kavelin, Ph.D. Associate Coordinator, Derek Patton, M.Ed
Child & Family Psychologist Network = facilitators world-wide
Virtues Companions Inc. reg. Victoria AU Offices, meeting, art,
companioning rooms www.kimadele.net__Indigo_Bey
Slide 3
Resources development Android phone application Virtues pick
and whole deck, with Lindas wish to swipe increase font Card holder
= habitual engagement after you are Long Gone (like a turkey
through the corn). Virtues Buttons Convincing ARGUMENTs &
Evidence
Slide 4
Children drop food off the table to test that gravity works for
peas AND potatoes. Everyone tests truthfulness in normal
conversation, e.g. DATA Everyone tests Evidence for the claimed
facts in normal conversation, e.g. the scientific mind. Everyone is
a researcher
Slide 5
Master in School Leadership degree State of Victoria funds 60
schools/year for one person to start a part time Masters in school
culture change using positive psychology. Virtues Project is day
topic with offer to introduce VP for the students research project,
with 2 research projects underway.
Slide 6
Black US college students answering 20 GRE? One answer sheet
asked them to ID their race. Another group were not asked this
question. Those who IDd their race, got HALF as many correct, as
those who didnt It is thought they were reminded of all the
negative stereotypes from American culture about their race. This
was 1995! You might think Im black and Im proud (James Brown) would
have taken root. Not. Implications for Mori and Aboriginal peoples
and their education experience? We need to be very careful what we
say & ask. Invisible thinking can be dangerous to peoples
wellbeing because it is insidious, invisible and pervasive.
Slide 7
3 groups tested by Yale researchers (Bargh, Chen, &
Burrows, 1996) used 3 word sets: Rude priming: aggressively, bold,
rude, bother, disturb, intrude, annoyingly, interrupt, audaciously,
brazen, impolitely, infringe, obnoxious, aggravating, and bluntly
Polite priming: respect, honor, considerate, appreciate, patiently,
cordially, yield, polite, cautiously, courteous, graciously,
sensitively, discreetly, behaved, and unobtrusively Neutral
priming: exercising, flawlessly, occasionally, rapidly, gleefully,
practiced, optimistically, successfully, normally, send, watches,
encourages, gives, clears, and prepares
Slide 8
After completing the sentence task, participants went to give
the results to the researcher. A confederate posed as a student,
apparently having difficulty understanding how to complete a task.
The experimenter and confederate engaged in a conversation with the
experimenter standing so that his body was open at about a 45 angle
to the approaching participant. How long would the participant wait
to be acknowledged, before interrupting? 10 min = ethically allowed
time limit.
Slide 9
How long did they wait? Participants primed rude waited on
average 326 seconds or 5.43 minutes Participants primed neutral
waited on average 519 seconds or 8.65 minutes Participants primed
polite waited on average 558 seconds or 9.3 minutes This does not
show full story because 62 % did not interrupt at all, making a
severe ceiling effect in the data. 82% in the polite condition
never interrupted! Come on, this was New York!
Slide 10
Slide 11
Invisible Thinking is powerful A pervasive environment of
virtuous words will have profound effects, even without adding the
effect of virtuous behaviour or explicit curriculum. We can use
this psychology/sociology reality to change school cultures. You
can explicitly teach strategies that arise from this to others.
BUT, invisible thinking is being used against us and our
children.