PSYC12H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 32: Intentionality, Social Identity Theory, In-Group Favoritism
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Robbert"s cave study: competition between groups produces prejudice and discrimination, whereas intergroup interdependence and cooperative interaction that result in successful outcomes reduce intergroup bias. Tajfel: cognitive bases of prejudice were not primarily irrational or psychopathological but rather directly related to social categorization and the search for social meaning. Social identity theory: mere categorization of people into ingroups and outgroups devoid of normal meaning and immediate functional relations minimal groups" was enough to create prejudice. Ppl categorize cuz its efficient (no need to waste so much thought etc) We usually have a pro-ingroup orientation rather than an anti-outgroup. We remember less positive information about outgroup members. Undesirable actions of outgroup members are encoded at more abstract levels that presume intentionality and dispositional origin. The level of category inclusiveness that will be dominant within a particular context can be modified by altering a perceiver"s goals, motives, and expectations, as well as factors within the situational con- text.
