PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Dominance Orientation, The Authoritarian Personality, Robert Zajonc

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Individual differences in prejudice: disgust, fear, power, anxiety and social dominance orientation how it affects prejudice. The role of affect (emotions) in studying stereotyping and prejudice. Is there a prejudiced personality: the authoritarian personality, social dominance orientation (sdo, political conservatism, needs for cognition, structure and closure, disgust sensitivity. The role of affect and emotions in studying stereotyping and prejudice. Researches become interested in how emotions affects cognition and decision making. Bodenhausen (1993) distinguishes incidental affect from integral affect: incidental affect that is elicited by situations unrelated to the intergroup context. Interestingly, an important determinant of chronic racial anxiety is the extent to which a perceiver feels that the out-group member is culturally dissimilar. Stereotyping: results: more people who"re threatened and highly emotional will promote more prejudice. Intense good mood: you got a date and you"re super happy you don"t think things through.

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