ISS 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Ingroups And Outgroups
30 Nov 2018
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Affirmative action = one example of preferential policy programs, something other than academic merit is being given consideration. Harvard lawsuit: capping asian enrollment, possibly saying asians have less personality, (harvard will probably lose the lawsuit) [because harvard takes federal grant money and they are violating the civil rights law] Racial information used in someway to manipulate the outcome. Any kind of social program that try to highlight a person"s demographic identity (especially racial) Both have performance effects and psychological effects. Higher educational achievement (gpa, graduation rates, etc. ) Better social and university-level experiences (ideally all students would benefit from these programs, but really these programs are supposed to help students who may not be as included in the university) Humans evolved for an ingroup favoritism heuristic (a fast and easy rule of thumb. Figure out who is with you and who is against you . That feeling of love is your brain"s way of getting you to do this.
