Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Psychological well-being

Previous research has found that African-Americans have more psychological distress from being subject to racism. Recent investigations have found that when black's have positive ingroup attitudes, their psychological health is improved. In social psychology, I learned that almost everyone wants to feel like they are a part of something bigger than themselves; we want to feel like we fit in somewhere. The issue of how people from the same race always hang out together has been brought up before. But if you explain that with this psychological health research, then it makes sense. What do you think about this issue of psychological health? Do you think because racism is becoming less of a problem that people will start socailizing in more diverse groups or has this already happened?

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  1. In my intro to psych class, we learned that individuals in enriched environments have increased neural development. I think that this is very interesting because if one develops in a negative environment that person’s cognitive functions is reduced. It makes that if a person in a positive ingroup has better health than an individual in a distressing situation. Even though racism is less than in the past, I think that our society still has a long way to go. It is hard to generalize and come to a conclusion about the socialization of diverse groups. It really depends more on the individuals who are socializing and their reactions to one another rather than just races mixing.

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