PSYCH355 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4-7: In-Group Favoritism, How We Think, System Justification

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Chapter 5: how we think about groups: social. Who is in and who is out social categorization. Social categorization: classifying people into groups to simplify the world. Makes us feel like we understand the world since categorizing someone = they"re similar to members of their group. Allows for top down perception: using group member traits and applying to individual negative about outgroup. Groups don"t need to be meaningful to elicit positive feelings about ingroup and. Outgroup homogeneity: seeing members of same group as similar to each other. Exaggerating differences between in-group members against outgroups. Part of the reason why i like us is because i like me ingroup members share. Attribution biases: positive behaviors/successful outcomes attributed to ingroup members" personality and negative to situation. Me and you instead of us and them : decategorization. Decategorization aims to think about other as unique individuals which reduces traits bias.

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