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Social Psychology

• 1990 ----- color ----- 29 min ----- vhs
• Shows how people's behavior in influenced by the social roles they play, by the social norms or rules governing different roles. Jim Sidanius talks about the scapegoating theory of how prejudice develops. Marilynn Brewer reveals why it was easy for her and her colleagues to create groups in the laboratory who were biased against each other. She identifies the means she found that tended to reduce bias and prejudice. Lee Ross describes the fundamental attribution error and its significance. Bernard Weiner defines the self-serving bias. Includes scenes from the Zimbardo "prison study".
• Topics: (Discrimination, Psychology: Social, Sociology)

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