Vicious cycles in intergroup relations Flashcards
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What is social cognition?
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- stereotypes often ‘hijack’ the way people process social information
- information from the environment seems to confirm them when it does not
- correspondence bias- the tendency to think that a person who acts in a certain way must possess the associated trait
- stereotypes shape how we perceive the world - Dunning and Sherman 1997
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What is correspondence bias?
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- tendency to think that a person who acts in a certain way must possess the associated trait
3
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Who said stereotypes shape how we percieve the world?
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- Dunning and Sherman 1997
4
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In vicious cycles in social emotion, who said people experience emotions towards other groups?
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- Smith, 1993, 1999
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In vicious cycles in social emotion, who demonstrated the intergroup emotions theory?
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- Mackie and Smith 2002
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What are the key points in vicious cycles in social emotion?
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- nature of emotions depends on the relative power and status of the groups
- power- anger- aggression
- powerless- fear - avoidance (Mackie et al 2000)
7
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Who proposed the intergroup anxiety model?
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- Stephan & Stephan 1985
8
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What is the intergroup anxiety model?
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- people expect to feel embarrased and uncomfortable
- people expect to be exploited
- people expect to be negatively evaluated by the outgroup and ingroup
9
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Who demonstrated that some emotions can perpetuate conflict and aggression?
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- Maitner et al 2007
10
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Who demonstrated that threats elicit anxiety?
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- Amodio 2009
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What are the key points in vicious cycles in social behaviour?
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- stereotypes can change behaviour in ways that verify the stereotypes
- stereotype threat - Steele 1997
- when people are tested and belong to a group that is not stereotypically expected to do well, they become anxious and confirm the stereotype
