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Social Relations
Attraction
Conflict and Prejudice
Altruism and Peacemaking
How do we relate to others?
Aggression
Stereotypes, Prejudice and
Discrimination
Prejudice:
• Undeserved (usually
negative) attitude
towards a group of
people.
Stereotype:
• Overgeneralized idea
about a group of
people.
Discrimination:
• An action based on a
prejudice.
Is it just race?
NO
• Palestinians and Jews
• RHS and PHS
• Men and Women
Implicit Bias
How does prejudice occur?
Just world
Phenomenon
In-Group versus OutGroups.
• In-Group Bias
Scapegoat Theory
Prejudices can often lead to a….
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
• A prediction that
causes itself to be
true.
• Rosenthal and
Jacobson’s
“Pygmalion in the
Classroom”
experiment.
Psychology of Aggression
Theories of Aggression:
Bandura’s Modeling
Frustration-Aggression
Hypothesis
Aggression and TV
Watches
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• By the time you are 18, you spend more time in front of TV than in school
•2/3 of all homes have 3 or more sets & average 51 hours a week.
•By the time a child finishes elementary school they have witnessed 8000
murders and 100,000 other acts of violence on TV alone
•Over half of all deaths do NOT show the victim's pain
•As media use has grown exponentially, as does violent behavior- a strong
positive correlation.
•How do you think media has effected sexual aggression?
Conflict
• A perceived
incompatibility of
actions, goals or
ideas.
• Social trap or
prisoner's dilemma.