PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Dominance Orientation, Implicit Stereotype, Authoritarianism
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Police officers tend to shoot black person with an object in their hand that look like a gun and less likely to shoot a white person that is actually holding a gun. Tend to shoot armed black person more so than armed white person. Tend to shoot un-armed black person more than un-armed white person. People tend to make less decision errors with armed person and more errors in decision making with un-armed person. Although it is debatable, there are probably constellations of traits that can make someone prejudiced. Submissive to authority, strict adherence to social norms, rigid thinkers. Freudian approach: strict disciplinarian parents, project deviant impulses to out-group. Submissive to authority, aggression towards out-groups, conventional thinking. According to authoritarianism, authoritarians should target everyone, not any specific group. It is an ideology about how the world is and how the world ought to be. Hard workers and smart people should be rewarded, and lazy people should not be.
