APSY-UE 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Fundamental Attribution Error, Illusory Correlation, In-Group Favoritism
15 Nov 2016
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What motivates hatred and no care for others, and what motivates heroic and selfless acts (like 9/11) Studying about scientifically how we think about, influence, relate to each other. The more attractive, the more favorable light, think they"re more confident. Includes beliefs, emotions, and predispositions toward actions. Prejudice is a negative attitude, whereas discrimination is a negative behavior. Stereotypes are generalized beliefs about a group of people. Tend to create biases in our perceptions. Assumptions of relations when there are none. Individuals tend to divide the world into us vs. them. Can lead to racism, to war, to communal solidarity. Through our social identities, we associate ourselves with some groups and contrast ourselves with others. This group identification typically promotes an in-group bias, or a favoring of one"s own group. Individuals attribute other people"s behaviors to internal dispositions or external situations. Internal disposition: characteristic that is intrinsic to the individual. External situation: attributing behavior that is outside of the individual.
