Factors affecting prejudice (pack 2 prejudice)

Question 1

What does Cohrs suggest about personality and prejudice as an individual difference?

Answer 1

personality dimension of openness to experience is negatively associated with prejudice

Question 2

Who suggests that the personality dimension of agreeableness is negatively associated with prejudice?

Answer 2

Cohrs

Question 3

What does ADORNO et al suggest about personality and prejudice?

Answer 3

that having an authoritarian personality may explain why some people are more prejudice

Question 4

How does ADORNO’s study link to developmental psychology?

Answer 4

suggested that authoritarianism develops in childhood due to harsh parenting

Question 5

how can culture have an affect on prejudice?

Answer 5

culture incorporates the values ideas and customs and behavioural norms of a particular group of people or society

Question 6

What did the study done by Al-Zahrani and Kaplowitz find on culture and prejudice?

Answer 6

found Saudi’s (collectivist) to self-report more in-group favouritism and negative out-group bias than Americans (individualistic)

Question 7

what did GUIMOND ET AL find on culture and prejudice?

Answer 7

found that prejudice was lower in countries which had a pro-diversity policy. Canada was low and Germany was high?

Question 8

What did Katz and Brady find to do with culture and prejudice?

Answer 8

conducted a questionnaire on American students investigating the national stereotypes they had about other cultures
when asked to pick 5-6 traits from a lost of 84 and apply to ethnic groups
African-Americans as superstitious and ignorant#
Jews as shrewd