Psychology 2720A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Newfie, Canadian Identity, European Canadian

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2720A/B
• Professor: Mike Morrison

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Canadians: other studies found multiculturalism is beneficial for people who come to this country. Low prejudice students contemplated benefits created more warmth in messages than low-prejudice who did not receive this msg: promoting multiculturalism seems to backfire for high-prejudice participants - communicated less warmth compared to those who did not receive message. Found that participants exposed to merits of multiculturalism felt that there were greater differences b/w themselves and. Stereotype: a generalization about a group of people in which identical characteristics are assigned to virtually all members of the group, regardless of actual variation among the members. Stereotypes associated with different ways of addressing people (i. e. ms. = more competitive/independent/less warm & nurturing than those titled miss or mrs. ) Stereotype does not always lead to negative or harmful behaviours - just to simply the world. "the law of least effort: allport said it was too complicated for us to have a highly differentiated attitude about everything.