PSY 341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Get Close, Habituation
30 Jan 2020
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Lecture #2: why do people join hate groups, racial attitudes. Less likely to be extreme in attitudes when joining but are slowly made more extreme. Sometimes characterize their groups as non-racist : searching for answers, why bad things happen (often blame outgroups) Give people a sense of meaning, purpose, and community: hate groups, recruitment. Usually recruited by someone they trust (55% by family) Get close to the individual, develop trust, then introduce their views and affiliations. Internet: ted talk: christian picciolini, my descent into america"s neo-nazi movement and how i got out . Development of prejudice in children: categorization in children, simplify the environment, make sense of the social world. Children can categorize even if they can"t verbalize. Attractiveness, gender, and age: explicit categorization, measuring categorization in children. Habituation paradigm: show babies the same photo until become familiar with it, show them the original photo and a new photo, measure how long the baby looks at each photo, explicit categorization.
