bias
The placebo effect, sampling errors and Hawthore effect are all examples.
What are research biases
What are Race, age, and gender.
There are three types of attraction
What is Companionate (Best friends), Passionate (Intimate/physical but little commitment), and Consummate (Commitment)
Hostile behavior towards another person or their interests.
What is aggression?
when an agressor tries to harm by indirect means
The positive or negative feelings towards a group without being consciously aware of them.
What is implicit bias
When people belong to many social groups at once.
What is Intersectionality
Thinking attractive people are nicer, smarter, and kinder than average looking people
What is the Halo Effect.
A goal that is a shared objective which brings two or more groups together by surpassing individual conflicts/aims.
What is a superordinate goal?
type of attraction that is normalized in the media- intimate and physical
The use of negative adjectives to describe an outgroup.
What is Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
Prejudice due to a person's social class
What is Classism
Attraction vs. Friendship
Suggests that aggression is related to a feedback loop between certain brain structures via electrical and chemical reactions.
What is the biochemical approach?
The tendency to develop positive feelings for something/someone after being repeatedly presented with them
"The culture/religion of Christianity is superior and the correct way of living life."
What is ethnocentrism
Stereotyping and prejudice tied to culture and structure of society
What is sociocultural theory.
Needing to be near someone to find them attractive
What is Proximity
Stressed people have trouble thinking of others. Confidence, contentment, and relaxation can allow for thinking of others' needs.
What is the Feel Good/Do Good Effect?
factors that determine what an individual finds beautiful or attractive
cognitive appraisal, cultural determinations, perceptual processes
Motivation, heuristics, age and emotions are influenced greatly.
What are common causes of cognitive bias
Behaviors stem from psychological mechanisms that evolved to allow survival
Evolutionary Theory
Similarity
When aggression is a tool used to acquire what the aggressor desires.
What is instrumental aggression?
attraction that is based on intimacy AND commitment