PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Prefrontal Cortex, Minimal Group Paradigm, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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Social psychology: how we function as selves. General assumption (usually left unexamined) that we see reality accurately, correctly, that we are normative, we make sense. Therefore, use our understanding of ourselves as a biases from which to judge others. People who are similar to us are obviously also nice, decent people like us, people who are different from us are weird. 90% adults believe they are better than avg drivers even though hospitalized for injuries by car accidents. Out of 800 000 people no one rated themselves below average in social skills. 25% said they were top 1% in-group favoritism out-group derogation. We extend our self serving biases to whatever we identify with, such as our in-groups. We are better than they: it doesn"t take much to prefer us vs them e. g. , minimal group paradigm (tajfel & turner) Comforting; we see people commit atrocities and assume they are not like us, something wrong with those people.
