Ethnocentrism It A Type Of Cultural Bias

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ethnocentrism is where our

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culture is taken as the norm that we judge other cultures against

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ethnocentric research is centered around

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the one culture its based on - so because most psychological studies have studied people from western cultures, a lot of them are ethnocentric

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Asch Date

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1951

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Asch research into conformity involved

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Seeing whether people would change their answers to an easy question to conform with the people around them

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Asch’s study was ethnocentric because it only studied

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Americans

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Milgram Date

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1963

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Milgram’s study of obedience challenged the view that the

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German soldiers who has carried out the Holocaust must be inherently evil

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Milgram found that people could commit evil acts because

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Of the situation they were in, rather than because of their character

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Milgram only used American participants in his study and

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didn’t take cultural differences between Germany and USA into account