PSYB10H3 Lecture 8: LEC 08
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Lec 08 groups, stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination. Ultrasociality thousands (or millions) of individuals living together. In all other ultrasocial species, individuals are closely related. Groups are an adaptation that enables human ultrasociality. Subjects were divided into two groups: klee fans or kandinsky fans. Then a task to assign dollars to a klee or kandinsky member. The amount the other assigns to them is the amount they get to keep at the end of the experiment. Participants chose to: maximize ingroup profit, maximize differences between groups, even at the expense of ingroup profit! Intergroup attitudes: like all attitudes, attitudes toward different social groups are composed of three components. Affective: prejudice refers to the general attitude structure, but more specifically the emotional component. Behavioral: discrimination is differential treatment due to group membership. Stereotype is a generalization about a group that is seen as descriptive of all members of that group.
