PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Fundamental Attribution Error, Ingroups And Outgroups, Victim Blaming
17 Feb 2014
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16 social behavior: personal perception: forming impressions of others, effects of physical appearance: if someone is attractive, they have more advantages. We tend to rate attractive people more positively in general: cognitive schemas: we like to categorize information. To see if people behave differently because of stereotypes. Zana study: they had white males interview either a white or black job applicant. They found that when the applicant was black the interviewers tended to do different things including sitting farther away, speaking more quickly, and make more mistakes when speaking (called non-immediate style). This suggests we change our behavior when dealing with stereotypes. In the second part, they wanted to see how people would react when people behaved toward them in the same style (sitting far away, etc. ). they wanted to see if being interviewed in a certain way effected performance. In this study a white experimenter interviewed white students using the either immediate or non-immediate style.
