podcast Flashcards
non complementary behaviour
– people naturally mirror each other. When people are hostile to you, you are typically hostile back. Very hard thing to do
- Why are you so hostile? – the police are harassing me
- You think im a terrorist ill show you a terrorist – got given hostility so started giving it back
social identity theory
when we define ourselves, we do so in large part by asserting our loyalty to the groups to which we belong. People form groups easily and when they do it is easy for their individual identity to group membership. People who are not in their group are lesser in some way.
minimal group paradigm
humans not only instinctively form groups, they will form them over anything – no matter how arbitrary or minimal or meaningless
- Ensuring our group is better off than the outsiders, even if it diminishes your own wellbeing
information deficit model
having access to all the same facts. People are wrong because they do not all have the same facts
- Naïve realism in psychology – misconception that anyone who reads the things that you have read or sees the things you have seen will interpret them the same way you do
bayesian reasoning
imaging your beliefs as a percentage of confidence instead of simply true or false
tribal psychology
cultural cognition, conforming their perceptions and interpretations to the values that define their cultural identities
- If someone does not believe in what your group thinks, you will no longer view them as an expert. Groups become polarized about certain issues
- When you threaten party’s issue stances they are not as affected as if they threaten the party itself
- If people told them that their party believes this they would 100 percent change their opinion on it
emotional empathy
catch the feeling someone else is feeling, people with psychopathy struggle with this
cognitive empathy
trying to figure out whats wrong, what they are feeling and why, people with autism struggle with this
empathetic concern/compassion
feel concern for what they are going through and a desire for their well-being to improve
altruistic suffering
when people think about suffering as a way to open up and empathise
dehuminization
physicians have to turn off their empathy and stop seeing their patients as people, so that they can go on and be people
