Discrimination and Scapegoating
Sam Tighe & Nick Gallo
What is Prejudice?
(Thinking about psychology) (Charles T. Blair-Broeker & Randal M. Ernst)
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What is a stereotype?
(Thinking about psychology) (Charles T. Blair-Broeker & Randal M. Ernst)
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What is discrimination?
(Thinking about psychology) (Charles T. Blair-Broeker & Randal M. Ernst)
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What is Scapegoating?
Scapegoating is the practice of singling out any party for blame as a scapegoat. Scapegoating may be conducted by individuals against individuals, individuals against groups, groups against individuals, and groups against groups .
A scapegoat may be an adult, sibling, child, employee, peer, ethnic or religious group, or country.
Scapegoating is a societal and biological problem because certain groups do not want to take blame and that is due to the pregenual anterior cingulate cortex, this controls the part of your brain that makes you feel shame. When you feel shame, you want to relieve hat feeling on others.
(Thinking about psychology) (Charles T. Blair-Broeker & Randal M. Ernst)
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In-group Out-group
Discrimination and Stereotype occur in these setting because of favoritism. Kids in the in-group favor their own kind more heavily and start to reject the out-group. This is called in-group bias. this is what creates the terms like Jock, Skaters, Goths, and Gangsters. Everyone wants to be part of their own group so this causes certain identities to be established. This is where prejudice is created because people of a specific group are looked at a specific way. This is a social reaction because of the way different people react with each other.
(Thinking about psychology) (Charles T. Blair-Broeker & Randal M. Ernst)
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