PSYA02H3 Lecture : PSYCHOLOGY Lecture 21 Social Influences and Group Behaviour.doc

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Steve Joordens

Document Summary

Psychology lecture 21: social influences and group behaviour. One of things that feed into prejudice are scarcity of resources and competition for resources even among groups that are assigned randomly. Low self esteem is a common predicator of prejudicial attitude. World war ii jewish people were successful in business during poor economic times while others didn"t and hitler targeted jewish people as the cause of the problem. Evolution humans would develop groups and rely on each other to survive have territories for hunting and would be suspicious of people not in the group allowed survival and reproduction to work well. Outgroup homogeneity if are in some ingroup and you have limited exposure to outgroups, members of the outgroups appear the same. Self-fulfilling prophecy one"s behaviour/reaction towards an object of their prejudice which might bring out behaviour of the object to justify with prejudice.