PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Construals, Wassily Kandinsky, Social Cognition
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Psyb10 lecture 8: groups, stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination. Ultrasociality: thousands (or millions) of individuals living together. Individuals are closely related: groups are an adaptation that enables human ultrasociality, good and bad consequences. Maximize difference (in favour of ingroup: participants chose to maximize ingroup profit, and maximize differences between groups, even at the expense of ingroup profit. Stereotype is a generalization about a group that is seen as descriptive of all members of that group. Modern prejudice: blatant (old fashioned) racism: Beliefs about minorities that are bigoted and readily admitted (i. e. blacks are. Can be used to justify holding other negative stereotypes (i. e woman are kinder, but less capable than men) May disparage members that don"t fit the positive stereotype. Categorize group a with good/ group b with bad (then reverse), and the difference between reaction times in the two blocks = implicit preference for a over b. White americans show consistent pro-white preference on average, and black.
