PSYC 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Cultural Psychology, Stereotype, Essentialism
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Associated with a lot of fear, anxiety, other emotional consequences. Negative social consequences because of damage to individual psyche. Must directly talk thorough experience - should not avoid discussing traumatic events. Associated with physical ailments - join pains, muscle aches. Negative social consequences as a source of distress. Cultural mechanisms to only talk about certain traumatic events using euphemisms. Westerners unprepared for reliance of sri lankans saying many of them are in denial . They belief that there are something good after - some protective elements of these religions. Increase in globalization results in increase of intergroup contact but also increases likelihood of intergroup con ict. Especially when groups see their culture threatened . More than ever, now, these forms of intergroup con ict is impacting numerous countries. e. g. europe"s refugee crisis: environment. Climate change: as it intensi es, it"s going to impact the health of the environment an the people.
