TEACHING TOOL: The videotape that failed to...

TEACHING TOOL: The videotape that failed to sway the Rodney King jury has become the backbone of Roxane Silver’s upper-division class on social psychology at UC Irvine. . . . This year she’s opened the class with the tape and even used it during the final exam. “I use it as a demonstration of conformity, obedience, prejudice, aggressiveness, the lack of intervention by observers. I use it as a demonstration of how we blame the victim. . . . I think it really brings the course material down to a real-world level.”