Social Relations

Social Relations
* Attractions
* Conflict and Prejudice
* Altruism and Peacemaking
* Aggression

Prejudice
* An unjustifiable attitude towards a group of people.
* usually inloves stereotyped beliefs (a generalized belief about a group of people)
Social Inequalities
*Ingroup: "us" people with whom one shares a common identity.
*outgroup: "them" those perceived as different than one's ingroup
*Ingroup Bias: the tendency to favor one's own group
Scapegoat
* the theory that prejudice provides an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame.
Aggression
* any physical verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy
The Pyschology of Aggression
frustration-Aggressive principle:
* the blocking of an attempt to achieve some goal
*creates anger which generates aggression
Conflict
* a perceived incompatibility of actions, goals or ideas
* social trap or prisoner's dilemma.