GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
COGNITION AND EMOTIONS
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the process of blaming someone else for your own problems
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acts of aggression against a group blamed for a problem
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the ability to resist a persuasive speech
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all of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Scapegoat theory refers to the tendency to blame someone else for one’s own problems, a process that often results in feelings of prejudice toward the person or group that one is blaming. Scapegoating serves as an opportunity to explain failure or misdeeds, while maintaining one’s positive self-image.
Detailed explanation-2: -Scapegoating as an organizational discursive strategy The scapegoat mechanism refers to a process of collectively blaming an individual actor (Girard, 1982) which is inherently discursive in that it relies on the production of texts that support the blame-shifting effort (Boeker, 1992).
Detailed explanation-3: -Scapegoating is therefore a role into which a group pressures a member as a defense of its own psychotic anxieties, seeking to temporarily recover a sense of harmony in response to difficult or risky conditions.
Detailed explanation-4: -Examples of Scapegoating A person who blames his or her partner for a burglary because he or she left the door unlocked or left a valuable possession visible is scapegoating.