PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Dominance Orientation, Sehar, Authoritarian Personality
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They do a dangerous job, their life is on the line on many occasions. They have to make split second decisions sometimes, and thus they might see certain groups of people as being more dangerous than other groups of people. The mistakes they make may be in a certain direction, e. g. they might be more likely to see a black man as holding a gun than a white man. Every time the police see a black person holding something, they think it is a gun. He asks whether these errors are systematic or not. We have theories and schemas, or ways of looking at things and people, and these ways guide our interpretations about what we see. We see the world how we are, not how the world is. Participants are shown images, of white men and black men in all different kinds of positions and backgrounds, and they are either holding a gun or a non-gun object.
