PSYC 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Identity Theory, Prosocial Behavior, Prefrontal Cortex
2 Mar 2020
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To examine how thoughts, feelings, perceptions, motives and behaviour are influenced by interactions with and transactions among people: goal to understand behaviours in its social context. Group formation: humans autonomically form groups from very early on in development: adaptive to identify other groups as friends or foes. Reciprocity: if person a helps person b, then person b will help person a. Individuals who perceive themselves to be members of the same social category: experience pride through their group membership. Ingroup favoritism: the tendency for people to evaluate favorably and privilege members of the ingroup more than members of the outgroup, outgroup homogeneity effect, the tendency to view outgroup members as less varied than ingroup members. Groups influence individual behaviour: people"s thoughts, emotions, and actions are strongly influenced by their desire to be good group members, most people are easily influenced by others, conform to group norms, and obey commands made by authorities.
