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Cher Horowitz from Clueless
Mindmap 5
Chapter 12
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Cher Horowitz from Clueless
Mindmap 5
Chapter 12
Section 12.2
Ingroup favoritism: When we tend to respond in a more positive way to people who are in our ingroups compared to people in our outgroups.
Cher seemingly enjoys being around people who are similar to her. And in cases where they are not, she tries to help them become more similar to her like Tai.
Ultimate attribution error: This is when people make trait attributions that benefit their ingroups like they make ones that benefit themselves.
For example when Cher helps her teachers get together, which in turn benefits everyone's grades, it can be seen as an ultimate attribution error as a reflection of her social group.
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Black sheep effect: This is when we strongly devalue a member of our ingroup who threatens the positive image or identity of the group.
In a way after Elton acts snobbish about not liking Tai and trying to force Cher to kiss him, Cher does not really hang out with him anymore. This effect occurs in a way since even though Cher and Elton were good friends before since they were in the same group, he was acting kind of rude to her and her friend so they drifted away from him.
Section 12.1
Social categorization: This is the natural process of how we place individuals into different social groups.
When Cher looks at Travis she sees more of his social group who she calls "loadies" who say "bonehead things" instead of viewing Travis as his own person.
Cher also said that, "No respectable girl actually dates them," after Tai talked about the "cool guy" she just met named Travis. Cher generalized about his group that he hangs around.
While Cher was showing Tai around she was telling her about all of the different groups at their school. For example, the popular boys in school, or the Persian Mafia as she called it.
Outgroup homogeneity: This is the tendency in which we see different members of outgroups to be more similar to each other than we view the members of our ingroups to be.
Cher refers to this different groups of students as if they are all the same, but she does not view the popular people in that way since she is a part of that group.
Section 12.3
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Extended-contact hypothesis: When people have friends who are friends with members of the outgroup, prejudice can be reduced.
After a while, Cher was eventually nicer to Travis, which in part was because Tai liked him, and she decided to be a better person and accept him since her friend was close to him.