1. Unit 14 Social Psychology pt. 3 Social Relations

2. Stereotypes, Prejudice and Discrimination
Overgeneralized idea about a group of people.
Prejudice:
Undeserved (usually negative) attitude towards a group of people.
Discrimination:
An action based on a prejudice.

3. Combating Prejudice Contact Theory
Contact between hostile groups will reduce animosity if they are made to work towards a superordinate goal.

4. Us and Them
Ingroup: People with whom one shares a common identity. Outgroup: Those perceived as different from one’s ingroup. Ingroup Bias: The tendency to favor one’s own group.
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Scotland’s famed “Tartan Army” fans.

5. Emotional Roots of Prejudice
Prejudice provides an outlet for anger [emotion] by providing someone to blame. The Germans before WW2 would blame the Jews for their poor economy. According to the scapegoat theory of prejudice, finding someone to blame when things go wrong can provide a target for one’s anger.
Preview Question 8: What are the social and emotional roots of prejudice?
To boost our own sense of status, it helps to have others to denigrate.

6. Cognitive Roots of Prejudice
Other-Race effect or own-race bias: emerges between 3 to 9 months and that is when there is a tendency to recall faces of one’s own race more accurately than another's. Remember Cotton?
In vivid cases such as the 9/11 attacks, terrorists can feed stereotypes or prejudices (terrorism). Most terrorists are non-Muslims.

7. Just-World Phenomenon
Tendency to believe that the world is just and that people get what they deserve and deserve what they get.

8. Bystander Effect Kitty Genovese case in Kew Gardens NY.
Conditions in which people are more or less likely to help one another. In general…the more people around…the less chance of help….because of…
Diffusion of Responsibility
Pluralistic Ignorance
People decide what to do by looking to others.

9. Bystander Effect The Bystander Effect: The Death of Kitty Genovese