1. Psychology of aggression
Two types of aggression
Instrumental Aggression
Hostile Aggression
Theories of Aggression:
Bandura’s Modeling
Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis

2. Stereotypes, prejudice and descrimination
Overgeneralized idea about a group of people.
Prejudice:
Undeserved (usually negative) attitude towards a group of people. Ethnocentrism is an example of a prejudice.
Discrimination:
An action based on a prejudice.

3. Components of Prejudice
Simply called “prejudgment,” a prejudice is an unjustifiable (usually negative) attitude toward a group and its members. Prejudice is often directed towards different cultural, ethnic, or gender groups.
Components of Prejudice
Beliefs (stereotypes)
Emotions (hostility, envy, fear)
Predisposition to act (discrimination
OBJECTIVE 13| Identify three components of prejudice.

4. Sources of Prejudice Frustration-aggression theory
People who are frustrated in their goals may turn their anger away from the proper target toward another, less powerful target. (Scapegoat)
Authoritarian personality
Personality pattern characterized by rigid conventionality, exaggerated respect for authority, and hostility toward those who defy social norms
Racism
Prejudice and discrimination directed at particular racial group

5. How does prejudice occur?
Just world Phenomenon
In one popular study female and male subjects were told two versions of a story about an interaction between a woman and a man. Both variations were exactly the same, except at the very end the man raped the woman in one and in the other he proposed marriage.
In both conditions, both female and male subjects viewed the woman's (identical) actions as inevitably leading to the (very different) results.
WHAT IS ANOTHER WORD FOR INFLUENCING
OTHER’S OPINION BASED ON HOW
INFORMATION IS PRESENTED??? REVIEW
In-Group versus Out-Groups.
In-Group Bias
Scapegoat Theory

6. Social divisions
Ingroup: People with whom one shares a common identity. Outgroup: Those perceived as different from one’s ingroup. Ingroup Bias: The tendency to favor one’s own group.

7. Combating prejudice Contact Theory
Contact between hostile groups will reduce animosity if they are made to work towards a superordinate goal.
Election of Obama?

8. attraction
5 Factors of Attraction

9. Rate The Attraction
Based on the following photographs, please answer the following questions:
On a scale of 1 to 10, how attractive do you find them?
Based on the photograph, what job do you think they have?
Based on the photograph, how much would you trust this person?

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20. proximity Geographic nearness Mere exposure effect:
Repeated exposure to something breeds liking.

21. Reciprocal liking You are more likely to like someone who likes you.
Why?
Except in elementary school!!!!

22. similarity Paula Abdul was wrong- opposites do NOT attract.
Birds of the same feather do flock together.
Similarity breeds content.

23. Liking through association
Classical Conditioning can play a part in attraction.
I love Natty Greene’s. If I see the same waitress every time I go there, I may begin to associate that waitress with the good feelings I get from Natty Greene’s.

24. Physical attractiveness

25. The hotty factor
Physically attractiveness predicts dating frequency (they date more).
They are perceived as healthier, happier, more honest and successful than less attractive counterparts.

26. Beauty and culture
Obesity is so revered among Mauritania's white Moor Arab population that the young girls are sometimes force-fed to obtain a weight the government has described as "life-threatening".

27. Are these cultures really that different?

28. Social relations Passionate Love Companionate Love
an aroused state of intense positive absorption in another
usually present at the beginning of a love relationship
Companionate Love
deep affectionate attachment we feel for those with whom our lives are intertwined

29. Social relations Equity Self-Disclosure Altruism
a condition in which people receive from a relationship in proportion to what they give to it
Self-Disclosure
revealing intimate aspects of oneself to others
Altruism
unselfish regard for the welfare of others

30. Altruism
Kitty Genovese