JOUR 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cognitive Dissonance, Starbucks, Ingroups And Outgroups
19 Dec 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Talking across differences: frames for the conversation. Meanings can change depending on speaker / listener / context. Talking across difference is a skill you can master: attribution theory: how the social perceiver uses info to arrive at casual explanations for events. Examines what info is gathered and how it is combined to form a casual judgement: cognitive dissonance theory: we have an inner drive to hold our attitudes and behavior in harmony and avoid disharmony. When there is an inconsistency between attitudes or behaviors, something must change to eliminate the dissonance: talking across differences. Lecture: understanding implicit bias (state of the science: implicit bias review 2015) Implicit bias: attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner. Characteristics of implicit bias: pervasive: everyone possess them, related but distinct mental constructs: not mutually exclusive, do not always align with beliefs, favor our own in-group, malleable: gradually unlearned through techniques - not permanent.
