PSYCH218 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ingroups And Outgroups, Environmental Degradation, Resource Depletion
8 Mar 2018
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Psych 218 death and the political level. Levels interrelated: govts create and implement laws, they use media to communicate with citizens, and the rest of the world, every leader of every country was once a kid that grew up in a family, functional vs dysfunctional. In-group rated way better (in-group effect: then: death no longer exists, task 2: rate again (stability/qol, there is a shift north/south: stronger in-group, east/west: weaker in- group favouritism, death changes everything interwoven into political systems. Internal - within the nation: how do they deal with the people residing in this country, political report card treating the people inside. Corruption: receiving international aid how much is diverted to those who need it vs government benefits, lobbying vs bribes interfere with policy making, profit and power vs public good. Assassination: at national level its inescapable, some deaths have special power, can create power vacuum/instability leading to revolutions, step towards genocide? (rwanda) Genocide: extreme denial of human rights.
