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18 Cards in this Set
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self-categorization |
the process of seeing oneself as a member of a social group |
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social identity |
the way we feel about the group membership |
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social identity theory |
the way people seek to derive positive self-esteem from their group memberships |
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BIRG and CORF |
Bask in the reflective glory and cut-off reflected failure of groups. actions to boost self-esteem. |
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out-group homogeneity effect |
everyone out of the group seems "all-alike" |
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cross-race effect |
tendency to more easily recognize members of ones own race |
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cross-race identification bias |
decreased ability of people of one race to recognize facesand facial expressions of people of another race |
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minimal intergroup situation |
individuals are randomlyassigned to groups without defining group characteristics, without knowing other ingroupor out-group members, without a basis for stereotypes, and without a history ofconflict or antagonism. |
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groupthink |
group decision making that is impaired by the drive to reach consensus regardless of how the consensus is formed |
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stigmatized |
negatively evaluated by others |
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stereotype threat |
performance impairment due to knowledge that othershold negative stereotypes about one’s group |
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individual mobility |
physical or psychological escape from stigmatized group |
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social creativity |
the strategy of introducing and emphasizing new dimensions of social comparison, on which a negatively regarded group can see itself as superior |
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social competition |
the strategy of directly seeking to change the conditions that disadvantage the in-group, for example by building group solidarity and challenging the out-group |
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platz and hosch (1988) |
three clerks identified their own race (mexican, white and black) the most out of the three (cross-race identification bias) |
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billig and tajfel (1973) |
divided boys in X and W groups (minimal intergroup situation) and points were biased toward own group |
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irving janis |
coined the term groupthink |
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larson et al. |
majority arguments are presented more compellingly (groupthink) |
