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13. The Psychology of Groups. This module assumes that a thorough understanding of people requires a thorough understanding of groups. Each of us is an autonomous individual seeking our own objectives, yet we are also members of groups—groups that constrain us, guide us, and sustain us. Just as each of us influences the group and the people ...
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When we think of diversity, we often default to categories such as one’s racial or gender identity, but we don’t immediately think about ideological differences. However, in recent years, the discussion about ideological diversity within universities and workplaces has open the door to more robust discussion about what it means to take seriously th...
So we return to the questions at the beginning of this chapter: When someone mentions “diversity,” what do you first think of in your mind? Is it how someone looks? Is it about where their family is from? Does it matter that their ancestors were from “someplace else”? Do you think about who someone might have voted for in a recent election? All of ...
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Jan 17, 2017 · The cross-race effect, as psychologists call it, occurs when the aforementioned brain folder is one categorized by race. Thus, people will sometimes confuse, say, two Asian people with each other ...
Jun 7, 2021 · Group psychology explains how groups form, conform, then warp our decision-making, productivity and creativity. When we’re in a group other people have an incredibly powerful effect on us. Groups can kill our creativity, inspire us to work harder, allow us to slack off, skew our decision-making and make us clam up.
But all too often groups spend much of their discussion time examining common knowledge—information that two or more group members know in common—rather than unshared information. This common knowledge effect or shared information bias will result in a bad outcome if something known by only one or two group members is very important.
Jan 16, 2017 · A lot of people mix up children's names or friends' names, but Deffler is a cognitive scientist at Rollins College, in Winter Park, Fla., and she wanted to find out why it happens. So she, and her ...
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5.2.1 In-Groups and Out-Groups. As we have explored earlier, groups can define who is accepted and who is not, determining access to valuable resources. Thinking about this, social psychologists identify in-groups and out-groups. An in-group is one which we belong to and towards which we hold favorable opinions.
