PSY 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Social Dominance Orientation, Heterosexism, Eye Color
27 Oct 2018
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Sexual orientation: gender, religion, height, others: __________ Serves basic motive of self-protection: more prone to exhibit prejudice toward outgroups, the positive feeling we have toward being part of an ingroup. Identity fusion: motive concerning intergroup dominance and status, social dominance orientation, desire to see one"s ingroup as dominant over other groups and a willingness to adopt cultural values that facilitate oppression over other groups. People are motivated (at least in part) to defend and justify the existing social, political, and economic conditions. Fundamental attribution error: underestimate the influence of discriminatory situations on the behavior of individuals, if expectations are violated (ex. Woman beating a man at weightlifting), more likely to then consider situational factors in order to maintain stereotypes beliefs: ex. something wrong with the equipment, how stereotypes survive: subtyping, even when exposed to stereotype disconfirming information (ex. American president: barack obama), our general stereotypes of the group are still often maintained.
