PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Startle Response, Political Correctness, Social Dominance Orientation
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Correll et al. , (2002: expectancies about social categories guide interpretation, generalize from group to member, does black stereotype affect shooting decisions, method: Target is holding a gun vs. non-gun: results: Higher error rate for unarmed men regardless of race. More likely to shoot a black person who"s holding a non-gun than a white person. Shot unarmed men more readily than armed men. Less likely to shoot an armed white person than an armed black person. Submissive to authority, strict adherence to social norms, rigid thinkers. Freudian approach: strict disciplinarian parents, project deviant impulses to outgroup: altemeyer: Submissive to authority, aggression towards outgroups, conventional thinking. Social dominance orientation (sdo): philosophical ideology and not personality, preference for inequality among social groups, higher status groups tend to be high in sdo, sdo provides legitimizing myth . Group status (men vs. women: pratto & shih (2000) Divided people into high and low sdos. Presented with food and bad words; evaluate word.
