PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Perception, Gordon Allport, Stereotype Threat
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Ingroup: a social group to which you belong. Outgroup: a social group to which you do not belong or anybody that does not belong to your ingroup. Intergroup processes: situations, cognitions, beliefs, and feelings that arise when people from different groups interact with or think about each other (groups can be religions, races, clubs, schools, really anything) : a diffuse but interrelated set of social psychological theories about when and why individuals identify with, and behave as a part of, social groups. We have all have a need for positive self-regard: we don t want to feel bad about ourselves. Via identification with the achievements of the social groups to which we belong. : people naturally group other social objects into groups; creates ingroup-outgroup distinction. Sept. 30, 2013: laziness we didn t want to spend too much time thinking about other people because we want to deal with many people. New way of thinking: cognitive miser.