PSYCH 3CD3 Lecture : January 6.docx
6 Jan 2014
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Monday, january 6, 2014: first textbook on prejudice, predicted a lot of things about stereotypes, took big steps towards understanding the types of intergroup situations he was seeing, old sayings and stories, early canadian research, illustrated the pervasiveness of poor intergroup relations, wax (1948, effects of last names on resort bookings. The modern world: effects of globalization, multiculturalism, gives the opportunity for interactions between cultures, but it also gives an equally large opportunities to express stereotypes in the form of discrimination, usually made more a negative than a positive opportunity, very easy for us to use stereotypes; also easy to dislike someone based on the fact that they are not in our in group, evolutionary perspective someone from a difficult group may have evil intent, harbor diseases, etc, to have a sense of anxiety about someone from an out group seems only natural.
