PSYCH 2C03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Ultimate Attribution Error, Ingroups And Outgroups, In-Group Favoritism
8 Mar 2016
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Of all the social behaviors discussed, prejudice is the most widespread, dangerous one and touches nearly everyone"s life. People who are members of visible minorities experience it more. Story of marry young 14 yo kid left home to finish school, was no accepted by people because of his culture and color, faced many problems. Prejudice is a two way street: it flows from a minority group to the majority group as well as majority to minority. Modern prejudice acting unprejudiced even if inwardly maintaining prejudiced views. Do you like gay people? (thinking no) but say yes (very much) to be convincing. Tapes of 2 presentations, black vs white person. White audience rated black person very badly when both performances were bad and praised black man more when both performances were good (to be convincing to the confederate that they are not racist)
