Outgroup

Decision making is something that we do every day. It’s something that’s so habitual that we don’t even think about it. I know I never really thought about it until reading into how it’s done and what affects our decision. During Memorial Day weekend, I used System 2 decision making. This is a more conscious and logical method than system 1. When I went shopping to get new shoes, my sister told me that Payless had a “buy one get one half off” sale for memorial day weekend. I knew that Payless…

(10 pts) Term: primacy effect, social norms, stereotypes (use all three) Scenario: Robert has been looking for work many months. He was discharged from the military for medical reasons due to serious hearing loss, and the loss of his left hand two years ago. He recently finished earning a degree and has sought to work in his desired field of working with autistic children. Everywhere he applies he gets an interview and he is thanked for his service. Despite there being severe shortage of workers…

need to experience oneself as a whole. Thus, when group members feel relatively unstable and fragile about their identity, they can’t understand who they are and a deep uncertainty renders the identity insecure (Mitzen 2006). In this regard, when an outgroup threatens an ingroup’s integrity and stability, an ontological insecurity happens. In such situation, ontological security will intensify levels of ingroup favoritism/bias and establish…

The plot concludes with the Patternists using collective power to kill Doro, as well as his cultural ideology. This culmination puts an exclamation point on Butler’s negative feelings regarding cultural and racial superiority mindsets: that they are utterly futile in the long run. Doro’s reign was temporary, and the collective forces of the Allies, only made possible by a culturally inclusive mindset, defeated the Axis Powers at the end of the day. Butler argues that bigotry is incapable of…

able to be your own person yet still embrace others. I also believe that Bohm can help to break down the idea of such categories. Placing us into boxes is what essentially breaks us and our relationships apart. This idea ties in Myer’s “Ingroup and Outgroup”; which talks about the benefits and disadvantages of being in a group and on the outside of a group. If someone knows themselves to be an Independent, then that may force them to look towards others like them due to the stigma behind…

People interact with others everyday, and those interactions can be explained through intergroup relations. Intergroup relations refer to how groups can influence our thoughts, feelings, and behaviour (Wright, 2018c). These relations are pronounced by stability, but also change. Although some may argue these systems will not change, if effective strategies are implemented at various levels of analysis and if prejudice-reducing strategies are implemented with children then negative thoughts,…

This article talks about how people react when they are/feel excluded. Certain people have different coping mechanisms for this and reasons why they are hurt by being excluded. The authors in this article go in depth as to what factors could lead people to having a lower sense of fear that people get from exclusion and the psychology behind it all. The main theory of this article basically acknowledges the fact that people are discomforted by rejection and exclusions. When people are excluded…

Canada is an inherently diverse country. With Canada having recently received 25,000 Syrian refugees and is committed to welcoming over 300,000 more immigrants by the end of 2016. There are bound to be some social psychological challenges with the introduction of people of varying races, and ethnic backgrounds when brought together. In this report I will highlight some of the possible ways that social psychological theories and concepts can be applied to help all people living in Canada coexist…

The in-group bias is a well-known social psychology concept that explains the human tendency of supporting those like themselves (the ‘us’) while denigrating those who are different (the ‘them’). In Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, Sapolsky goes in depth on the dichotomizing process of “us/them-ing”, claiming our mental categorizations to be innate and automatic. Sapolsky dedicates a chapter of Behave to explaining the biological and social reasons all humans, along with a…

What is Chicano? Who is Chicano? What is Chicano History? Where does it come from? These are the questions many, especially those apart of the Mexican-American community ask on a daily basis. With a history that is often overlooked or only specified through the historical context in regards to the Southwest, journalist, researchers, authors Fernando Penalosa, Juan Gomez-Quinones, & Gilberto Cardenas each respectfully inform the reader on these questions at hand. Toward an Operational Definition…