PSYCH 3CD3 Lecture Notes - Ingroups And Outgroups
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Brought people into the lab and exposed them to a faked newspaper headline of ingroup or outgroup atrocities: dv: degree of moral outrage against ingroup vs. outgroup for same acts, results, when you are a glorified patriot, you see more moral outrage directed towards the outgroup than towards the ingroup for the same acts, fairly forgiving of the ingroup, if your attachment is more critical, you see more pressure on the ingroup to correct what they do, interested in your ingroup to be really good. Iv: induced conventional or critical thinking: list actual ingroup traits, list ideal ingroup traits, dv: degree of group based guilt (1 5 likert, results, the critical attachment results in a higher degree of guilt than the conventional attachment, this suggests if we can get people to think more people to think critically, we may be able to fix problems.