PSYC12H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Normative Social Influence, Cognitive Dissonance, Ethnocentrism
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Chapter 4: the prejudice personality: are some people more. Also examine the many other individual-difference variables that tend to influence the tendency to use stereotypes or hold prejudiced attitudes. >these ind"s hated impulses and were more likely to externalize these unacceptable impulses to others via projection (displaced to stereotyped groups making them believe they do not have these negative qualities) These characteristics can also be found in minority groups. Allport believed these personalities emerged out of a crippled ego. >ind"s feel threatened, insecure, and fearful of virtually everything; in trying to overcome insecurities, person develops a prejudiced view of others as a way of prjoecting their fears and self-doubts onto others. >also these ind" tend to represss their fears and insecurities to avoid facing anxieties and shortcomings; they possess same characteristics of authoritarian ind"s: ambivalence toward parents, moralism, a need for definiteness and dichotomization. 4 reasons researchers become more and more critical of psychoanalytic approaches to personality.
