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prejudice

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a (usually negative but could be positive) attitude towards a distinguishable group of people (any type of social group)
- unrelated to reality , a distortion of fact or illogical

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is an attitude

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  • cognitive component
  • affective component
  • behavioural component
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cognitive component

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  • illusory correlation
  • social categorization
  • in group bias
  • outgrip homogeneity
  • ultimate attribution error
  • stereotype
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illusory correlation

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the tendency to see a relationship between two variables where little to no relationship exists
ex. dumb jock

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social categorization

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  • highlight similarities and down plays differences within group
  • we make categories with people that are like me “Us”, and people tho aren’t like me “Them”
  • identity and self esteem
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in group bias

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  • we start to show favouritism to groups we are a part of (and think highly of them)
  • show favouritism to our group members
  • creating a boundary between us and them
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minimal group

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  • a group of people who happen to be thrown together with you temporarily
    ex. having the choice of - 2 for you 1 for them vs. 3 for you, 4 for them. People usually choose 2 for you 1 for them because their in-group is getting more money than the out group
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outgrip homogeneity

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  • we tend to see the members of out group as being all the same
  • but we see our own group, we see differences and uniqueness
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ultimate attribution error

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  • associating a characteristic of a group based solely on the situation
    “thats the way they all are”
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stereotype

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  • two step process
    1. automatic processing
    2. controlled processing
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automatic processing

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(low effort thinking)

something might occur where stereotype is activated

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controlled processing

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(high effort thinking)

we choose to accept or disregard the stereotype

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simply being aware that the stereotype exist, doesn’t mean

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you believe in that stereotype

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implicit attitudes

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attitudes we might not be conscious that we hold

- IAT

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affective component

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  • bad mood can activate (usually negative) stereotype

- negative stereotypes are accompanied by negative emotions (difficult to change)

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negativity bias

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  • when you’re in a bad mood you’re even more likely to notice bad things
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emotions can be measured in

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  • HR
  • BP
  • galvanic skin response (GSR)
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GSR

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mesures electricity in the skin to measure emotions

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ethnocentrism

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the degree to which you believe your ethnic group is superior to others

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behavioural component

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  • how we act
  • discrimination
  • thoughts/feelings and behaviours do not always coincide
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discrimination

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  • individual discrimination

- systematic/institutionalized discrimination

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individual discrimination

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micro level

ex. not sitting beside someone on the bus

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systematic/institutionalized discrimination

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macro level

ex. within the law or organizational practices

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Chinese head tax

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many Chinese labourers were brought into Canada and gov hoped that they would go back to china, but they decided to stay here. therefore they implemented a head tax, so every individual who wanted to immigrate from china had to pay a fee
- exclusion act

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exclusion act
stopped immigration from china for about 25 years
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thoughts/feelings and behaviours do not always coincide meaning
- people who have strong feelings won't always act upon them (it's not a social norm to do so) - people who don't have any feelings won't always act upon them (because they don't realize or everyone else is doing it)
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where does prejudice come from
- socialization - realistic conflict theory - right wing authoritarianism - religious fundamentalism - social dominance orientation
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socialization
- as you are being socialized you may be exposed to norms, values and belief and you might internalize those norms, values and beliefs ex. you take on your parents beliefs
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realistic conflict theory
when certain resources are limited, in a particular setting or in society that leaves competition over those resources and prejudice feelings develop - ex. sherif found that boys who were attending a summer camp, they were divided into two teams, and then set up a competition between the two. and winners got rewards (resources). they began to have prejudice behaviours
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right wing authoriarianism
- authoritarian submission - authoritarian aggression - conventionalism - some might score higher in one of theses than the others, and others might score high in all of them (right wing authoritarianism)
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attitudes towards _____ can become more prejudice in times of _____
- immigrants | - economic times
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authoritarian submission
- tendency to see a leaders authority as being legit
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authoritarian aggression
- it's okay to direct aggressive behaviour that your leader sees as being a legit target
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conventionalism
- tendency to conform to the conventions/norms/behaviours established by an authority figure
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religious fundamentalism
- if it's religious belief system that is interpreted literally - not seeing symbolism or figurative ways
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social dominance orientation
- they believe in the superiority of all their social groups (any group they belong to)
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reducing prejudice
- education - intergroup contact - jigsaw classroom
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education
- negative correlation between education level and prejudice - higher education, lower levels of prejudice - learning to think more flexibly or to critical think and expansion for social network - effects of different educational approaches - jane elliot
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effects of different educational approaches (six)
- study done in Germany in lower grades, specifically on turkish culture - study of how german students feel towards turkish students - pretest that measured preexisting levels of prejudice - measurements taken 3, 6, 9 weeks
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1st condition
films only (turkish kids living in germany (+&-)
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2nd condition
soundtrack only (podcast)
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3rd condition
teaching program only (how they lived, and prejudice towards them)
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4th condition
- short teaching program and films
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5th condition
no treatment
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teaching targeted
cognitive component
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films targeted
affective component
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the higher their preexisting prejudice
- the less effect the conditions had on them | - the ones with the highest prejudice of them all only lowered with condition 4
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the short term results (3 week mark)
found that in short term 1-4 conditions had an impact on lower levels of prejudice
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long term results
- in long term, only one that had continued impact was #4
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jane elliot
eye colour exercise
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intergroup contact
- interaction with other social groups to reduce prejudice by disconfirming negative stereotypes
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intergroup contact depends on
- clarity and specific of behaviours - numbers of behaviours instances required - nature of contact setting
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clarity and specific of behaviours
how observable are the stereotypes | ex. messy
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numbers of behaviours instances required
how many points of contact are needed - neg stereotypes form quickly but take a long time to dispel - positive stereotypes take a long time to form but can be quickly be dispel
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nature of contact setting
form the contact takes has to allow the expression of behaviours that are associated with the stereotype

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