PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Quebec Sovereignty Movement, Canadian Identity, In-Group Favoritism
28 Sep 2020
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When we encounter a person w certain characteristics (ex. old male), we rely on our perceptions of what people w similar characteristics have been like in the past to help us determine how to react to this person. Out-group members are often seen as possessing negative traits and are often disliked. In-group bias- tendency to evaluate in-group members more positively than out-group members. Although the participants were strangers before the experiment and didn"t interact w one another during it, they behaved as if those who shared the same meaningless label were their dear friends or close kin. if that meant the out-group member would receive . The pairs of strangers who were simply photographed together were more likely to use terms like we and us to report greater liking than pairs of strangers who sat next to each other but weren"t photographed. Tendency to discriminate against the out-group is even stronger when people have chosen their group.
