PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Political Correctness, Startle Response, Social Dominance Orientation
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African immigrant killed in the streets of new york by police. He had a wallet in his hand, but police though he had a gun. Error rate for shoot/don"t shoot decisions as a function of race and object. White e t a r r o r r. More errors for unarmed targets than armed targets. In the unarmed targets, there are fewer errors for whit targets than white targets. In the armed targets, they make less shooting errors for black target than the white target. Groups of people who are submissive to authority, strict adherence to social norms, rigid thinkers. Freudian approach: strict disciplinarian parents, project deviant impulses to out-group: parents didn"t allow freedom. Submissive to authority, aggression towards outgroups, conventional thinking. Higher status groups tend to be high in sdo. Social inequality is needed so that those who are hardworking and deserving of rewards receive them and those who don"t receive punishments.
