PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Illusory Correlation, Subtyping, Ingroups And Outgroups
9 Jan 2018
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Relationships between things that are not actually related, result from the way we process them. The effect of distinctiveness, unusual events capture attention and better remembered. Negative events are less frequent, and when they happen, they are more distinctive. Outgroup with negative event will be highly distinctive. People told about random facts about groups, there is tendency to attribute positive facts with majority group and negative facts with minority group. Media more likely to cover negative events about minority groups (by majority group) The same event can be portrayed differently depends on the group membership. Not all can be illusory correlated (e. g. left handedness and vegetarian) Also shapes how we interpret information (same behavior can be interpreted differently because our stereotypes e. g. black man pushes white man interpret as aggreassive) Our expectation affects how we behave towards others, which in turn affects their behavior that fits our expectation.
