{"id":597,"date":"2007-07-31T00:45:15","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T00:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=597"},"modified":"2007-07-31T00:45:15","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T00:45:15","slug":"my-first-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=597","title":{"rendered":"My First Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I gave my first lecture. It was to a class of about 150 students, on the social psychology of groups, with a particular focus on the fairly well-known Robbers Cave experiment<\/a>.
\nThe lecture was not of my design – I was delivering one of Jim’s, but I had the opportunity to make it my own beforehand, and did so, making many significant changes to the powerpoint slides and building my own presentation around them. It helped that it’s quite a fun lecture – the Robbers Cave study involved rambunctious 12-year old boys raiding each others’ campsites and fighting snakes, so it holds the attention well.
\nIt went fine. I was a bit nervy at the start but settled down pretty fast, and was completely comfortable by the second half. Somehow or other I got it to run exactly to time, as well, which was quite remarkable.
\nSo, how about that. If you’d told me this time last year I would be giving a lecture now, I would have thought it quite unlikely. Just goes to show how much I know where I’m going with my life, what what?
\n—
\nHeadline, page 3 of the Dom Post Monday: “Maori shame at abuse of toddler”. Highlighted quote: Maori have turned into “the most ugliest (sic<\/em>) and violent people ever”. (That noted, I was surprised to find myself agreeing with the director of NZ’s Family First organisation, who called for “a non-political commission of inquiry into child abuse, increased support for parenting groups and community organisations working with at-risk families”.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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