E3: Combating prejudice

Question 1

what are some ways that we can try to combat prejudice

Answer 1

-education
-laws
-social norms
-contact
-cooperative activities

Question 2

education in combating prejudice

Answer 2

not always a super effect method because people may get offended and either not listen or double down on their original thoughts

-better off with more institutional changes and doing things like having diverse workforce, diverse initiatives, and evaluating employees on open mindedness because this will more likely produce long term attitude changes

Question 3

laws in combating prejudice

Answer 3

laws that outlaw prejudice show that authority figures support the notion that prejudice is harmful

-makes people less likely to outwardly show prejudice and as these behaviors lessen over time they become more and more unacceptable

Question 4

social norms in combating prejudice

Answer 4

changing social norms to make prejudice not okay; could be done through laws

Question 5

contact between groups in combating prejudice

Answer 5

desegregating groups can be helpful but only under certain conditionsc

Question 6

conditions necessary for contact between groups to be effective

Answer 6

-equal status between the members of one group and the members of other

-personal interactions: many different people need to talk to each other at the individual level

Question 7

how do personal interactions across groups decrease prejudice

Answer 7

by interacting with may different members of the same group, people will have less homogeneity of outgroup and see that not all others are the same which will decrease prejudice

Question 8

why is combatting prejudice hard even when people do want to

Answer 8

the shelling effect

Question 9

the shelling effect

Answer 9

the idea that even just the slight preferences of well intentioned people lead to large scale outcomes and results