PSYC12H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Group Dynamics, Voting Rights Act Of 1965, Stereotype
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Introduction to the study of stereotyping and prejudice. Humans have a tendency to form groups. Membership to a group may be restricted on basis of special skills, family relations, gender, power, etc. Can live longer, happier and more fulfilling lives than if people are to fend for themselves or for their own group. Groups are not unique to humans: tendency to form groups is a basic part of the nature of animals, forming groups have conveyed survival benefits so successfully it has withstood time and evolution. Helps in fighting off predators, raiding offspring. Virtually all wars, and acts of group violence was driven by some form of prejudice and stereotyping: ex. Spanish inquisition, american civil war, the american slave trade, the. Holocaust, the genocides in rwanda and yugoslavia: some of the most intense intergroup hostility has been based on differences in religious beliefs ex. Some people think that prejudice and stereotyping are no longer a problem in the united.
