science of emotion chapter 10 quiz

Which of the following theories posits that when a person's group identity is made significant, they tend to evaluate and interact with outgroup members using group emotions

Intergroup Emotions Theory

what happens to people’s implicit prejudice when they are induced to feel a particular negative emotion like disgust or anger

Prejudice increases largely toward groups whose perceived threat is associated with the induced emotion

Which of the following theories of prejudice takes an evolutionary perspective, claiming that humans experience emotions in response to group-level threats?

Socio-functional theory

Cuddy and colleagues distinguished between two dimensions of intergroup behavior: active/passive and facilitation/harm. Where does physical aggression towards an outgroup fall on these two dimensions?

Active harm

Anxiety during intergroup contact reduces people's attentional focus, preventing them from processing incoming information about individual members of an outgroup. What is one result of this?

Perceived outgroup homogeneity

Researchers generally agree that a "group emotion" process is unfolding when what occurs?

Members of a group experience a highly homogeneous emotion state

"Canned laughter", or laugh tracks, on TV sitcoms take advantage of which phenomenon?

Emotion contagion

Whenever Lola sees her mom looking fearful of dogs, she associates her mom's fearful expression with herself, resulting in emotion contagion. Which explanation of emotion contagion does this example best fit

Learning

Germans who were not even alive during WWII have experienced guilt on behalf of their country. This is best described as an example of what process?

Emotions on behalf of the group

A study of mothers and infants by Waters, West, and Mendes (2014) put a group of mothers through a stressful public speaking experience. What happened to their babies when they were reunited after the speech?

The baby's cardiac responding united with the mother's, suggesting the baby caught the mother's stress