PSYCH 360 Lecture Notes - Groupthink, Deindividuation, Drive Theory
2 Apr 2013
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Suppression: requires motivation, effort, awareness, breaks down when tired, stressed, time-pressured, rebound effect, suppressing stereotype can subsequently lead to rebound. Social learning: prejudiced households prejudice; tolerant ones teach tolerance. Including belief that ingroup members are less prejudiced than you are reduces prejudice. Recategorization: common ingroup identity model, seeing them as us. , working together cooperatively (ex. Collective guilt: reframing consequences of inequality as advantage to majority group rather than disadvantage to minority group, induces guilt for perceiving privilege at other"s expense. Interaction: mutual influence, sense of belonging (importance of group), shared goals, members are similar in important ways. Features of groups: roles: differentiation of functions, status: hierarchy of importance, may be internalized, linked to self-concept, linked to individual outcomes; linked to power, norms: rules for behavior, cohesiveness: factors that bind members to the group. Evaluation apprehension: concern over what others will think, social facilitation often requires that audience be paying attention.
