Group Conflict 1
What is the main cause of group conflict according to Realistic Conflict Theory?
Competition over limited resources
What is BIRGing?
Basking in Reflected Glory
What is altruism?
Costly action that benefits another person, but not the actor
What is prosocial behavior?
A type of behavior that benefits another person
What is the name of the theory claiming that group conflict is caused by the need of high self-esteem?
Social Identity Theory
What is CORFing?
Cutting off Reflected Failure
What is the structure in the brain that detects fear in other people?
Amygdala
What was measured in the 'Helping Elaine' study?
Whether or not people would switch places with her to receive electric shocks
The effect of perceiving out-groups as more simmilar to eachother
Out-group homogeneity effect
What is identity salience?
The type of identity we have activated at a given time
What are the names of two chemical messengers related to prosocial behavior?
Oxytocin, dopamine
What is one argument that explains why altruism does not disprove evolution?
Kin-selection
What is the Robber's Cave experiment?
The experiment on schoolboys by Sherif. It supports Realistic Conflict Theory
What is the difference between Cognitive Underestimator and Cognitive Overestimator?
None. It's fake
What is the name of the hypothesis claiming that we feel more compassion towards people we understand better?
empathy-altruism hypothesis
How did priests' behavior change after reading the 'Good Samaritan' story in the study on prosocial behavior?
It did not change.
The type of study showing that group conflict happens even due to artificial and mundane group differences
Minimal-group paradigm
What are the three key components of SIT?
Social categorization, social identity, social comparison
What are four factors that decrease prosocial behavior?
Being in a hurry, seeing somebody as out-group, living in rich country, lack of empathy
What was one culture with high- or one culture with low frequency of helping in a cross-cultural study by Levine et al?
High - Rio de Janeiro, San José in Costa Rica, and Lilongwe in Malawi
Low - New York, Amsterdam, Singapore