PSYC12H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Buda, Normative Social Influence, Theory Of Reasoned Action
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Chapter 1- introduction to the study of stereotyping and prejudice. Humans have tendency to form groups: based on special skills, family relations, gender, power, etc. Groups are basic building blocks of society: people live longer, happier, more fulfilling lives together than alone, also goes for animals also. Disadvantages to groups include: mate competition/retention, being close to members of their own group and tend to be suspicious and rejecting of member of other groups. Group members tend to favor their own groups (ingroups) over other groups to which they don"t belong (outgroups) Virtually all of history"s wars, battles, and other acts of group violence have been driven by some form of prejudice, stereotyping, and/or discrimination. Some of the most intense intergroup hostility has been based on difference in religious beliefs. Interestingly, the word stereotype originally derives from a term to describe a printing process in which fixed casts of material are reproduced.