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1
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What is this part 3 (ch9-12) about?

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How we relate to one another

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Main prejudice examples

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Race, Gender, Sexual Orientation

but also:

Religion (muslims mostly),
Age,
Obesity,
Immigrants,
Politics

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Prejudice (definition)

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A preconceived negative judgement of a group and its individual members

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Prejudice is an _______.

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attitude

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ABCs of attitudes

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affect (feelings), behavioral inclination, and cognition (beliefs)

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Stereotypes

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Generalized social beliefs about individuals in groups

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What’s the problem with stereotypes?

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When they’re overgeneralized or inaccurate. Prejudice often follows inaccurate stereotypes.

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Discrimination (how does it differ to prejudice?)

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Discrimination is a negative behavior.

Prejudice is a negative attitude.

Action must be required to be considered as discrimination

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What do implicit association tests (IATs) show about our prejudice attidues?

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We can have differing implicit and explicit attitudes.

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Are implicit or explicit attitudes more long-lasting?

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Implicit.

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IATs modestly predict _____ acts, but better predict ____ outcomes

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individual; average

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Is it nature or people who categorize mixed people as “black”? What’s the evidence?

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People do. No neat categories of race.

Cultures with more exposure to mixed are likely to categorize them as white more frequently.

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How have explicit racial attitudes changed since 50-70 years ago?

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Much less explicit racism (eg. more accepting of cross-cultural marriage, IATs prejudice decline, etc.)

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What shows that racial prejudices might NOT be going away? (3 things)

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Increased people saying racial prejudice is a big problem.
28% –> 51% –> 76% (2009, 2015, 2020)

Increased hate crimes

People tend to underreport negative stereotypes.

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How many out of 4 people associate favourable words to white more than blacks when doing IAT?

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3 in 4

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Racial discrimination in job callbacks

Discrimination in 2015 is just as strong as in ____

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1 in 10 callbacks for white names,
1 in 15 callbacks for black names.

1989

Starting salary also influenced.

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Airbnb, Uber racial discrimination

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Airbnb less likely to accept African-American name guests.

Uber longer wait times and more cancellations for black names

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Essays by blacks and whites study (Stanford)

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When graders knew essay was written by black, they offered less negative comments and higher praise (patronizing with lower standards?)

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Study of press button to shoot or not shoot when holding gun or harmless object

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More often will shoot black females incorrectly

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What brain region facilitates automatic responding to feeling threat?

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Amygdala

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21
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What has police been doing to try avoid influence of stereotypes?

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Implicit-bias training

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What happens to mental health among blacks when there’s some big racial incidence?

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Poor mental health and nightmares.

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Norms are _____, stereotypes are ______.

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Prescriptive, Descriptive

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What happened to stereotypes about men and women agreeableness and competence/intelligence from 1946 to 2018?

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Competence/Intelligence: women and men rated more equal than before

Agreeableness and caring: women as even more agreeable compared to men

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Have attitudes towards women changed more rapidly/slowly/the same as racial attitudes?

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Just as rapidly.

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Women-are-wonderful-effect

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Women are more liked than men. Understanding, kind, helpful

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Benevolent sexism

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Seemingly positive in tone but underlies some sexist inference

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Hostile sexism

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An outwardly negative statement about women

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Sexual harassment statistics for women

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81% of US women experienced some form of sexual harassment in lifetime (43% men did). 1/3 worldwide had sexual assault or partner violence. 3/4 had unwanted sexual advances in work.

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Middle East percentage who agree that it’s very important for women to have same rights as men

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48%

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How is prenatal sexism a problem?

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110 boy births per 100 in India. Now have abortion and ultrasound to determine sex and people prefer boys.

32
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Antigay attitudes strongest among what 3 predictors?

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old, male, less educated

33
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How do state policies relate to gay people well-being?

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The policies predict mood disorder rates amongst LGBT. When same-sex marriage banned, general anxiety, mood disorders increased lots for gay and lesbian.

34
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Suicide rate among gay and lesbian teens

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3x higher than general teen rate

35
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How is unequal status related to prejudice?

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Unequal status breeds prejudice. Upper-class see lower-class as less worthy (‘they earned it’). Eg. slavery

36
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Social Dominance Orientation

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Motivation to have one’s group dominate other social groups. Has high prejudice.

37
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Social sources of prejudice

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Inequality, Socialization, Systemic

38
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Authoritarian personality

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Personality disposed to favor obedience to authority and intolerance of outgroups. (those who prejudice against 1 group are likely to prejudice against another)

39
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Prejudice from church members

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White church members express more racial prejudice than nonmembers.
Fundamentalist believers express more prejudice than progressives.

40
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What’s causal relationship between religion and prejudice?

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Unsure. Has 3 possibilities.

41
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What types of religious members are less prejudiced?

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Intrinsically religious, Clergy, and Faithful attenders

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Conformity and prejudice

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Those who conformed are most prejudiced if prejudice is socially accepted.

Media is important.

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Systemic supports that bolster prejudice

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Media enforcing status quo. eg. focus on women’s bodies or men faces.

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Motivations of Prejudice

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Frustration and Aggression (Scapegoat)
Social Identity Theory (Ingroup)
Motivation to Avoid Prejudice

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Realistic Group Conflict Theory

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Prejudice arises from competition between groups for same resources

46
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Social Identity Theory (3 things.)

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We not only have personal, but a social identity. (eg. woman, asian, etc.)

We categorize, identify, and compare.

“Us” vs. “Them”, Group norms

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Effects of ingroup bias

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Helps self-concept, feeds favortism, dehumanizes outgroups

48
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Is ingroup bias dislike other group?

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Both ingroup liking and outgroup disliking. Ingroup liking is stronger in discrimination

49
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When are outgroup stereotypes strongest?

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When we feel most keenly to ingroup

50
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How does status relate to prejudice?

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We need people below us. This leads to prejudice and superiority feelings when threatened.

51
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What’s problem with avoiding prejudice?

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They just don’t go away. Divert attention away from person doesn’t solve.

52
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Can prejudice habit be broken?

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If motivated internally, then yes.

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Cognitive Sources of Prejudice

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Categorization, Distinctiveness, Attribution

54
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Why do we categorize?

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Cognitive ease.

55
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What 2 characteristics are most powerful in categorizing?

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Sex and ethnicity

56
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Outgroup homogeneity effect

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Perception that outgroup members are more similar to one another than ingroup. (they are alike, we’re diverse) (non-asian label as asian vs asian label as chinese)

57
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Own-race bias

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Tendency for people to more accurately recognize faces of own race. Even infants 9 months old

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Own-age bias

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Can recognize identity of own age groups better.

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How does distinctiveness play a role in prejudice?

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We’re defined by our distinctive characteristics. Including race. Arises self-consciousness too.

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Vivid Cases and Stereotypes

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We judge groups based on vivid cases. (eg. Muslim stereotype)

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Distinct cases and illusory correlations

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We make illusory correlations based on distinctiveness. Makes us thing greater proportion.

62
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Fundamental Attribution Error and Stereotype

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Race/Sex gets attributed rather than situational

63
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Group-serving bias

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We explain away outgroup positive behaviors and attribute negative behaviors to dispositions. Attribute ingroup negatives to situations

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Just-World Phenomenon (how it relates to the rape case)

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Tendency to believe world is just and people deserve what they get.

In rape experiment, people still thought she deserved it.

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Prejudgements

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A consequence of prejudice.

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Subtyping

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Thinking of one as exception who is different to stereotype (not a good thing. subtype positive remains the negative stereotype.)

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Subtyping difference between high and low-prejudice people

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high prejudice subtype positive members and low prejudice subtype negative members

68
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Subgrouping

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Form new stereotype about the subset of group (a part of overall group, slight change in group’s stereotype)

69
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Self-fulfilling Prophecy and Discrimination

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Being victimized can affect the way that you act and feel.

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Stereotype threat

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Concern that one will be evaluated based on negative stereotype.

71
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How does self-fulfilling prophecy and stereotype threat differ?

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stereotype threat: negative sterotypes harm performance.
self-fulfilling prophecy: initial stereotypes reinforced.

72
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3 ways stereotype threat undermines performance

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Stress, self-monitoring, and suppressing thoughts/emotion

73
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Values affirmation

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important and useful to affirm who one is. To combat stereotype threat.

74
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Do people rate outgroup individuals higher or their group higher?

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individual

75
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Men who high in hostile sexism what outcomes?

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Less relationship satisfaction

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