POL SCI 126 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fundamental Attribution Error, Stereotype, Sayana
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People view the world as in groups and out groups: each group tends to exaggerate its own good qualities while denegrating the out group - we can see this in rivalries with athletic teams. Stereotypes can block empathy: split second judgements. People decide to trust somebody within 4-5 seconds. They"re not basing that decision to trust on a lot of decisions so they are using stereotypes. People are prone to disrust the outgroup: fundamental attribution error. People exaggerate the extent to which a person"s behavior reflects their character or behavior: underestimate the external factors that are contributing. The other state may believe it is reacting to threats and it is behaving defensively: during cold war most people believed soviet union had huge army because it planned to invade western europe. Soviet union saw it as they were surrounded by enemise and they had to have troops to keep their countries in the warsaw pact.
