7 What are the consequences of stereotypes?

Question 1

Correll et al 2002

Answer 1

-policemans dilemma:
made a game that people had to make a split second decision as to whether to shoot someone depending on if they’re a threat.
get penalised for mistakes (so want to do well)
Manipulated race and whether or not the target was armed or unarmed

Question 2

policemans dilemma results:

Answer 2

(always shoot armed ppl. never unarmed)

• armed: quicker response to african american targets
• unarmed: quicker response to white targets
• armed: more errors (targets let go) for white targets
• unarmed: more errors (targets shot) who were black

This was same for black and white participants

Question 3

What can happen when we try to supress stereotypes?

Answer 3

they can rebound and we end up thinking about them more.

Question 4

Macrae et al. 1994

Answer 4

Skin head passage thingy:

• given a pic of a skinhead and asked to write a passage about his daily activities
• half told not to be stereotypical
• then given a new skinhead photo, the participants were asked to write another passage with no instructions this time
• passages then scored for stereotypicality

Question 5

Macrae et al results:

Answer 5

• first passage - the control were more stereotypical than the suppressed people
• in the second passage the suppressors were far more stereotypical than the control
• controls were constant throughout

Question 6

What is a cognitive dependent variable?

Answer 6

focusing on biases in processing

Question 7

What is a behavioural dependent variable?

Answer 7

focusing on biases in behaviour

Question 8

macare et al 1994 (behavioural)

Answer 8

• same task 1 as cognitive measure
• told to go and pick a chair in the waiting room to wait for the next task
• skin head in the room
• supressors tend to sit further from the skinehead

Question 9

Steele and Aronson 1995

Answer 9

-negative stereotypes can have negative impact on performance
just your knowledge that your performance can ‘impair’ the stereotype causes you to be worse.
Golf: when presented as just crazy golf W and B performed the same
-when presented as test of athletic ability W was worse
-When presented as a ‘sports strategic thinking’ task B performed worse

Question 10

Spencer, Steele and Quinn 1999

Answer 10

extended the prejudice research to genders.

having a maths test where women were said to be worse than men at maths, women underperformed MASSIVELY

Question 11

Moss-Racusin et al. 2012

Answer 11

• same application given to participants but with different gender
• asked to rank hireability, competence and how willing they’d be to mentor them they ranked females lower every time
• salary they’d give the man - 30,000
• women salary -26.5,000

Question 12

Kawakami et al. 2000

Answer 12

• stereotypes don’t need to automatised
• put student infront of a computer and they had to keep sayin ‘no these two things don’t go together’ and press a key to move on
• with training participants were able to reduce stereotyping