SOCL 2001 : Exam 2 Notes
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Include close friends and families: long-lasting relationships, many years or life-time, diffuse interaction. Spread out: different kinds of interactions between different members. Intimacy: emotional connection between members, fulfills expressive needs, small in number. For every behavior we calculate the expected benefits and rewards against the risks and costs. Ingroups: groups we belong to, or associate ourselves with, ex: "our" sports teams, outgroups, groups we don"t belong to, especially those we are opposed to, ex: rival sports teams. Leads to ethnocentrism and xenophobia: we are the best (our groups and ways of doing things, other groups must be worse, leads to xenophobia, the fear or dislike of anything that is different. Judge people differently depending on the group affiliated: attribution theory, we attribute desirable behavior by ourselves and our ingroups to internal causes, and undesirable behavior to external causes, forces from outside.
