PSYC12H3 Lecture 4: Lecture 4 PSYC12
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Lecture 4 - individual differences in prejudice: disgust, fear, power, and social dominance orientation. The role of affect in stereotyping and prejudice: researchers became interested in how emotion affects cognition and decision-making, robert zajonc. "we feel first, think later. : applies a lot to prej theory, argued that emotions dvpd first then cognition in the history of human dvpt, bodenhausen (1993) distinguishes incidental from integral affect. The former (incidental affect) is affect that is elicited by situations unrelated to the intergroup context, whereas the latter (integral affect) is affect that is elicited w/i the inter-group context and involves the stereotyped group. Incidental affect happens randomly - e. g. , happens when someone is anxious of an exam and thus randomly stereotypes a person. Integral affect - occurs when the emotion is tied to prej. Incidental affect is characterized by feelings that have nothing to do w/ the intergroup context that nonetheless influence social judgments and lead to stereotyping b/c affect generally impacts cognition.
