PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Face Perception, Social Perception, Aversive Racism
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A social group to which you belong. Any group that you identify with it. A social group to which you do not belong. Any group that is not your own, i. e. as a woman, men are an outgroup to me. Outgroup members on one dimension can be ingroup members on another dimension. The ease with which we can change what is an ingroup or an outgroup plays into prejudice reduction. A diffuse but interrelated set of social psychological theories about when and why individuals identify with, and behave as a part of, social groups. Slide 8 assumptions of social identity theory. Key assumption: we have all have a need for positive self-regard. This need creates a cheap path to positive self-regard through our group membership. How do we achieve this positive self-regard: via our own achievements. But sometimes the things we are striving for takes decades: via identification with the achievements of the social groups we belong to.
