PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Dominance Orientation, Trait Theory, Conventionalism
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Lecture 4: individual differences in prejudice: disgust, fear, power, and social dominance orientation. The role of affect in stereotyping & prejudice. Researchers became interested in how emotions affect cognition and decision making thought about moods and emotional states affect how we think. About how the brain is wired; gut level and intuitive instincts that guide our later thought processes. (rober zajonc) we feel first, think later. Argues emotions developed first then cognition in the history of human development. The former is affect that is elicited by situations unrelated to the intergroup context, whereas the latter is affect that is elicited within the intergroup context and involves the stereotyped group. Incidental affect characterized by feelings that have nothing to do with the intergroup context that nonetheless influence social judgements and lead to stereotyping because affect generally impacts cognition. Basically, a mood that just we just happen to have. Integral affect can arise merely from thinking about the outgroup.
