PSY-P 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Desirability Bias, Authoritarianism, Conventionalism
9 Aug 2016
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Promote beliefs & values of own culture a. ii. 1. Ethnocentrism: humans have a tendency for self-preservation, as well as having the ability to be self-conscious c. i. Terror premature mortality gives rise to this: cultural worldviews, humanly created and transmitted beliefs a. i. Cling more tenaciously to our own worldview a. ii. Respond positively to those who share our world view a. iii. Respond negatively to those who threaten our world view: mortality salience paradigm, mortality salience condition we give them a legitimate personality assessment a. i. What does death mean , what do you think happens after death: control condition things that don"t make you more conscious of their own mortality. How does taking an exam make you feel c. Social judgements about those who threaten worldview: those in the mortality salience condition will make more negative judgements about those with a differing worldview. This showed the relationship between their disdain for jews and their favor for their own cultures b. ii.
