PSYC 2700H Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Out-Group Homogeneity, Wassily Kandinsky, Monster Study
5 Apr 2016
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Two or more individuals perceived as related because of their: interacions with each other over ime, membership in the same social category, common fate or shared goals, group a collecion of individuals. Social categorizaion classiicaion of persons into groups on the basis of common characterisics. Ingroups groups in which we feel a sense of ailiaion, idenity, and belonging (us) Outgroups groups with which we do not idenify (them) Minimal groups procedure strangers are categorized into arbitrary groups on the basis of trivial similariies: what would happen, classic experiment: Boys asked which painings they liked more. Asked to allocate cash points to other boys (using a series of reward matrices) Gave more cash to ingroup than to outgroup (posiive diferenial), even if the ingroup received less cash overall. Ingroup favouriism: ingroup membes are viewed/treated more favourably: outgroup members are derogated/ treated unfairly. Social idenity group-based aspects of our self-concept: when acive/salient act consistently with that idenity.
