PSYCH355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: In-Group Favoritism, Fusiform Face Area, Striatum

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH355
• Professor: Hilary B Bergsieker

Document Summary

The neural substrates of in-group bias: a functional. Value of group membership is illustrated by how people form groups and favor in group members. Assignment to an arbitrary group results in strong in-group preference, even without factors that are believed to attribute to intergroup discrimination ie. prior contact with in/out group members. Minimal group research lead to 2 concepts: people rapidly categorize themselves into current obvious social groupings, social identities is central motivation in humans. In group identities shape basic social perception, along with preference, thoughts, behaviors. Self categorization leads to individuated processing of in group members. Motivates in group biases in social perception. Greater recognition of in group faces (than out groups) when equally exposed to members of both groups. Own race bias: better at recognizing members of own race/ethnicity. Activity in fusiform face area while viewing own race faces during fmri. P"s with strongest effect also displayed greatest orb on other recognition tasks.