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We're all like that.
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We also favor our group over others in every possible way.
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You are a member of many groups. You are men. You are women.
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You're Yale students. You're young. You're white, you're black, you're Asian.
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You're a member of these groups and, as we will discuss repeatedly
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when we talk about social cognition and social behavior,
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this membership matters a lot to you. What's particularly interesting is
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even groups that are formed, that you were not born with,
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that are formed on the fly, exert a huge amount of control over
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your moral feelings and moral attitudes.
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And the best example of this is discussed in detail in the textbook.
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And this is the Robber's Cave study. And this Robbers Cave study serves as