PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Group Dynamics, Relative Deprivation, Henri Tajfel

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2310
• Professor: Saba Safdar

Document Summary

Helping a blind person across the street. According to empathy-altruism hypothesis people are not primarily selfish, at least not always. Cross cultural differences in helping strangers (levine, norenzayan, and philbrick, 2001) Whenever individuals belonging to one group interact, collectively or individually, with another group or its members in terms of their group identification, we have an instance of intergroup behaviour. Categorization is one of the fundamental cognitive processes in humans. Categorization is the lumping together of objects and events into meaningful groupings. Categorization is an efficient way to deal with wide stimuli. Dyadic level individual level, aware you don"t belong to the same group. Social categorization is classification of people into groups based on common attributes. Different amount of information we have about in-group and out-group members (familiarity. Different kinds of categories for members of ingroup and out-group. Boys were allocated to two meaningless groups (preference for two abstract artists)