PSC 152 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: In-Group Favoritism, Ingroups And Outgroups, Social Cognition
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We tend to have favorable reactions to ingroups & negative reactions toward outgroups. Both personality and societal factors can contribute toward intergroup bias. Can arise out of normal cognitive processes. Rate lines in group a as very similar. Rate lines in group b as very similar. Report large differences between lines in group a and lines in group b. Adding group labels exaggerate similarity within groups; exaggerate differences between groups. Participants were either assigned as overestimators or underestimators. More favorable attitudes & behavior toward (minimal) ingroup members. If you were assigned as a overestimator, you would favor other fellow overestimators. Based on simple categorization into us vs. them + esteem. Like ingroup for esteem needs and desire to feel good about the groups we needs belong to. Knowledge, beliefs, & expectancies from some domain that we have accumulated from past experiences. Mental representations are built, stored, & used for future prediction & to guide behavior.
