PSYD15H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Apa Style, Ingroups And Outgroups
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Bonus assignment: 1 page defining empathy and why and where it comes out and give rationale for it (site). Activated when viewing someone treated unfairly and feel revenge rather than empathy. Activated when people feel pleasure from others feeling pain. Affective divergence: how you interpret other"s (friends or strangers) emotions (correctly or not). Group formation plays role in emotion interpretation. Speed of identifying emotion contingent on group membership. Group membership may alter meaning/interpretation of emotion expressions as well as response. Affective responses to given target outcomes depend on group membership of target. Signal value responses to facial expressions reflect meaning or function of those expressions for individual perceivers. More likely to catch on emotions of in-groups than out-groups. Example: can catch on your friend being scared as opposed to an outsider being scared. White target + white participant = state fear as bad. White target + black participant = state fear as good.
