PSYC 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Social Dominance Orientation, Ethnocentrism, Unfriended
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Moral migration online, 28% of liberals, 16% of conservatives, & 14% of moderates have blocked, unfriended, or hidden someone on facebook over political differences a. i. Blocking friends online mimics avoiding certain news channels (fox/msnbc), only going to certain websites, refusing to watch mad men or refusing to watch glee b. If you"re surrounded by people who agree with you and you"re not exposed to ideas from the other side polarization increases. Assesses the degree to which individuals support egalitarianism between groups or support (or at least defend the utility of) unequal group hierarchies a. ii. Sd theory argues that group hierarchies are inevitable, universal, and legitimate regulators of the status quo a. iii. Assesses the degree to which individuals prefer tradition and ovedience to social order out of fear of amore secularized world b. ii. Rwa is concerned less with group hierarchies and more with defending values from the perceived threat of outgroups.
