PSY 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Realistic Conflict Theory, Abscissa And Ordinate, Ultimate Attribution Error
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The behavioural component of prejudice: an unjustified, negative or harmful action: Towards a member of a group simply because of the person"s membership in the group. According to social identity theory, other people are seen as belonging o. Either to our group (known as in-group: or to a different group (known as out-group) In group bias is the tendency in humans to evaluate in-group member more positively than out-group members. Out group homogeneity is the perception that those in the out-group are more similar (homogeneous ) to each other than o o. Discriminating against them boosts the self-esteem of the instigator. Implications of social categorization for reducing prejudice o. E. g. speaking the same language: make salient the super ordinate group to which both groups belong o. Provide alternative routes to boost self-esteem: what we believe: stereotypes o. In order to explain how stereotypical beliefs affect cognitive processing, a two-step model (divine, 2003) suggests that:
