PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Comparison Theory, Stroop Effect, Confirmation Bias
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The laramie project: story about matthew who was a 21-year-old homosexual who was beat up by two homosexual males and eventually died in hospital. A model of stigma reactions: major and o"brien (2005) Three things that make an identity threat appraisal. Appraising whether you think you have been devalued: collective representation: culture, meta-stereotype, knowledge of stereotypes, situational cues: communicating stigma relevance, personal characteristics: individual difference in perception and appraisal. After you make a threat appraisal two things occur: Volitional responses (ways of coping with the situation) Nonvolitional and volitional responses result in outcomes. Short-term outcomes (e. g. , getting flustered and stammered) Threat appraisal: relevance of stigma to an individual. Situational cues (at an airport after 9/11) Identity threat appraisal (threat of being devaluated because of hair, cultural apparel) Volitional response (standing with head down, hardly moving) Self-fulfilling prophecies: this is not the case, however.
