PSYCH253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Behaviorism, Contact Hypothesis, Stereotypes Of Jews
4 Oct 2018
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It is a theo(cid:396)(cid:455) that is supposed to (cid:271)e a(cid:271)out (cid:862)ho(cid:449) (cid:272)o(cid:374)fli(cid:272)ts de(cid:448)elop between g(cid:396)oups i(cid:374) so(cid:272)iet(cid:455)? (cid:863) Developed by sherif (same person who did the norm formation study) Social identity theory says that any distinction between groups causes favouritism for your own group. Why do we favour people in our own group: we want to feel better about ourselves, we feel better about our group which makes us feel better about ourselves. Suggest that we stereotype to make sense of the world. To make sense of the world, we have to simplify things. In order to do that, we need to put things and people into categories. Illusory correlations: concerned with stereotypes, because they are negative generalization, in this study, people read about a whole bunch of different people who were either from group a or group b (there is more people in.
