PSY 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Relative Deprivation, Realistic Conflict Theory, Psy
10 Dec 2020
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Causes of the problem: intergroup and motivational factors. No one is immune from stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. Therefore, although there are individual differences clearly some people are more prejudiced than others, for example social psychological explanations tend to address factors that make most of us either more or less vulnerable to these intergroup biases. A fundamental tenet of social psychology is the social nature of the human animal. Both in our evolutionary history and in contemporary life, humans live, play, work, and fight in groups. A fundamental motive that evolved in our species and in other primates is the need to affiliate with relatively small groups of similar others serves as self-protection. One implication of this is the evolved tendency in people to divide the world into ingroups and outgroups us versus them and to favour the former over the latter in numerous ways.
