So, You Are One of Them Lab

(Video Activity: Interpersonal Attraction: Clothes Make the Man) Using a 10-point scale, observers' judgments of Peter's attractiveness change from an average of __________ on the first day to an average of __________ on the second day

3.4; 5.8

(Video Activity: Interpersonal Attraction: Clothes Make the Man) Past research indicates that men's __________ significantly impacts women's judgments of them

Ability to provide resources

Hindsight Bias

Assuming the victim of bad events should have expected what was coming

Just World Phenomenon

Believing that people get what they deserve, justifying prejudice against the unfortunate

Categorization

Classifying people into groups, which often leads to steryotyping

(Video Activity: Interpersonal Attraction: Clothes Make the Man) This program examines how a difference in __________ can affect social judgments

Clothing

Scapegoating

Coping with anger or frustration by blaming others for negative events or our own failures

Group Identification

Developing favoritism toward people like us and prejudice toward the outgroup

Social Inequalities

Developing prejudices against those of a lower status to justify keeping things as they are

Vivid Cases

Forming attitudes toward a category of people based on the most memorable examples

(Video Activity: Whom Do We Help?) The researcher suggests that passersby may have assumed that the male victim was:

Homeless and drunk

(Video Activity: Whom Do We Help?) The researcher suggests that we may be more likely to help females than males because we:

May believe there is more we can do for females