PSYC12H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Stroop Effect
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Chapter 17: - recognition of group memberships - perception, cognition, affect, behavior. Behavior during intergroup interactions depends on the interactants" motivations, previous intergroup contact experiences, and facets of the immediate social context. Whites use colder voice tones, maintain less eye contact and shorter glances and create greater social distance during interactions with blacks. Negative non-verbal behavior with physical disabilities, gay/straight, thin/overweight. Research paradigms that relegated blacks to the position of passive objects that are reacted to" by whites, rather than as active agents. Negative" non-verbal behavior could also reflect anxiety stemming from any number of individual difference and situational factors not prejudice cause they could have different believes from their behaviours shown implicit not explicit. Individuals" attitudes and cognitions play a significant role in the behavioral expression of bias, but that the influences of attitudes and cognitions are moderated by conscious motivations, as well as by social and contextual norms.
