PSYCH 3CD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Multiple Choice, The Instructor, Psych
30 Apr 2015
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Closed body language, failed eye contact etc. are all everyday uses of prejudice. Less everyday = targeting the jewish in the holocaust, rwanda, and slavery. Almost predicts everything that has happened before research. Wrote about early 20th cent. prejudices: old sayings and stories. Once you have these stereotypes, prejudgement of some other groups, it will colour every interaction you have with them. No matter what a member of that group does you will interpret it in that lens: early canadian research. Effects of last names on resort bookings. Post ww2 when resorts were having a lot of trouble, people did not have money/want to go on vacation. Wax (1948) post ww2 when resorts were having a lot of trouble, people did not have money/want to go on vacation. Wax decided to send out letters to resorts. 2 letters, say the same thing but varies who wrote the letter. Some are written by mr. lockwood or mr. greenberg. (jewish)
