PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Health Management System, Experimental Psychology, Asian Americans
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Lecture 6: the evolutionary underpinnings of prejudice & how stereotyping legitimizes social hierarchies. Decades ago if humans walked around not afraid, they might not make it until today since they would have been dead. Individuals who feel chronically vulnerable to interpersonal danger i. e. , those who believe that the world is dangerous also express more prejudice against out-groups. Intergroup vigilance theory implies that prejudice should be enhanced by dangerous contexts. Ingroup favoritism higher in people who believe in a dangerous world and even. Mo e o if (cid:455)ou(cid:859)(cid:396)e i(cid:374) the da(cid:396)k: outgroup homogeneity higher in people who believe in a dangerous world and. 1999): 2) individuals from non-local cultures are more likely to engage in subjectively strange customs violating local customs that help to inhibit transmission of disease (e. g. , hygiene, food preparation, and sexual activity). 3 avoidance and social exclusion of subjectively foreign peoples may have been functional in the avoidance of disease.
