PSYCH 3CD3 Lecture : January 27.docx
3 Feb 2014
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Monday, january 27, 2014: armenian stereotype, dishonest, deceitful, money grubbing, dv"s, survey of the armenian stereotype (to confirm) Other findings: % lawsuits, % use of charity, therefore, americans more likely to be involved in lawsuits, whites overused charity and not armenians, armenian stereotype didn"t match empirical evidence, the stereotype was inaccurate, so why the stereotype, origins. 4+ kids: female headed family, how many have illegitimate children, average people"s estimates underestimates the problems of the above 4 issues, could not understand the extent of the problems, all subjects were white; perhaps they did not want to look racist, underestimation: magnitude is inaccurate. Summary: stereotypes are likely to be anywhere from partially to completely inaccurate, some stereotypes have a grain of truth to them, illusory correlation, grain of truth encourages their use, confirming information is encoded, disconfirming information is ignored or otherwise dealt with .
