PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Pluralistic Ignorance, Prejudice, Extortion
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Psych 102 16 november 2017 prejudice and discrimination. Automatic, reflexive association between a group and a (set of) stereotype(s) Pluralistic ignorance (there is an emergency, no one else is helping, maybe there is no emergency) They got participants to seat in a booth: discuss experience being at college in new york, via intercom, one speaker faked a seizure. Another experiment: participants in a room filled out a questionnaire, either alone, with 2 other passive confederates, or with 3 na ve participants. Depending on the situation, if its emergency more people will help. Ways to decrease the bystander effect: know about the bystander effect, give people directions (responsibility, take a first aid course. Intent to cause harm on someone else (main goal) Instrumental aggression: use aggression to achieve a goal (extortion, lunch money) Males tend to be involved in physical, direct bullying.