PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Cognition, Ingroups And Outgroups, Ethnocentrism
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Lecture 8: relationship dissatisfaction: partners in unsatisfying relationships more likely to make negative attributions for partner"s behavior, top divorce predictors: partnering w/ neurotic personality, highly sensitive to rejection, Marrying at young age or undergoing financial stress: behavioral divorce predictors: In all other species (non-human) individuals are closely related: groups are an adaptation that enables human ultrasociality, good & bad consequences, groups are seen everywhere, ex. Prejudice: blatant racism (old fashioned), beliefs about minorities that are bigoted/readily admitted, ex. Blacks are lazy / jews are cheap: open expression of bigoted views is less common. Benevolent racism (or sexism): race & gender stereotypes often containing a mix of positive/negative views: positive stereotype issues, can justify holding other negative stereotypes can justify/balance out negative stereotypes, ex. Implicit attitude: measure of someone"s automatic negative/positive evaluation of thing: measured: by associating social categories w/ positive or negative words, people may report non-prejudiced attitudes explicity but iplict measure shows biases.
