PSYCH 3CD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Hanging Judge, Price Drop, Relative Deprivation
30 Apr 2015
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February 23rd 2015: when your group status is threatened is when we are most likely to see prejudice. If you feel you might lose your positive distinctiveness. When that negative feeling might get translated into violent action. Offers neat social psychologist friendly explanation for where prejudice comes from and when it will turn violent, to which group and why. Lynchings between 1882 and 1930 (hovland & sears, 1940) term derived from a hanging judge, lynch. (lynching - white men who round our black people and kill them, usually by hanging them. ) Decided to take a look at rate of lynching. Found that most of the lynching were in the south, and most were white people killing black people. Looked at how many per year - 69 lynchings per year on average. Low was 7 lynchings one year (1929) high was 1892-3 155 people lynched in both years: variation was associated with cotton prices.
