PS102 Lecture Notes - Realistic Conflict Theory, Mind Control, Groupthink
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Self-serving bias: the tendency, in explaining one"s behavior, to take credit for good actions and rationalize mistakes. Group-serving bias: the tendency to explain favorably the behaviors of members of groups to which we belong (few people think they were part of the. Attitudes are combination of learning, experience and genetics: religious affiliation (the religion chosen) is not heritable; religiosity (the depth of religious feeling) has a genetic component, political affiliation is not heritable; political conservatism is highly heritable. The variability in openness to new experience and conscientiousness is related to variability in genes: this is linked to religion and politics, less open tend to be more fundamentalist, more conscientious tend to be more conservative politically. Religious affiliation is not heritable: people choose a religious affiliation because of their parents or social class etc, many people switch, this isn"t heritable. But twins reared apart are similar in their religiosity.
