PSY-1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fundamental Attribution Error, In-Group Favoritism, Ingroups And Outgroups
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Social psychologists study how we think, feel, and behave in social situations. Self-serving bias: tendency to attribute positive events to their own character but attribute negative events to external factors. In-group: people with whom one shares a common identity: members receive little blame for negative actions attributed to external factors and get credit for positive actions attributed to dispositional factors. Outgroup: those perceived as different from one"s in-group: members receive little credit for positive actions attributed to external factors but get the blame for negative actions attributed to dispositional factors. In-group bias: tendency to favor one"s own group. Attitude: belief and feeling that predisposes one to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events. Chameleon effect (conformity): adjusting one"s behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard (chartrand & bargh, 1999). (solomon asch) Central route persuasion: when a person is influenced by content.
