PSYC 170 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: In-Group Favoritism, Aarp, Racial Profiling
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Chapter 13 prejudice: causes, consequences and cures. Prejudice a hostile or negative attitude toward people in a distinguishable group based solely on their membership in that group: contains cognitive, emotional and behavioral components. We are all victims or potential victims of prejudice for no other reason than our membership in an identifiable group: can be targeted towards a minority or majority group. Human mind cannot avoid creating categories grouping people based on characteristics: social neuroscientists find that creating categories is an adaptive mechanism that humans are born with. Newborns have no preference for faces of one race or another, but if they live in a monoracial world, they will show a preference for faces of their own race by 3 months of age. If repeatedly see faces of 2+ races, they show no preference. Experience shapes our ability to notice different categories.
