INTERVIEW: Sohad Murrar Flashcards
What study did she do?
Minority students shown video of school community saying they all supported minorities
Then participants reported two weeks later that their ”advantaged student” peers treated them with more respect
BUT advantaged students did not report any change in behavior
What main questions guide her work as a researcher?
How can we reduce prejudice in real world contexts
by using: media, social norms
Minority students shown video of school community saying they all supported minorities
Then participants reported two weeks later that their ”advantaged student” peers treated them with more respect
Why is this happening?
Possibly ambiguous behaviours are being interpreted as ambiguous and not as prejudiced
AND
People may be focusing on explicitly inclusive behaviours
Minority students who watched this video tended to do better in tests later.
How does watching this video translate to better grades (her speculation)?
Diversity is a norm here (safe space for them)
Holding your minority status holds a lot of cognitive resources, so this might free up space you can use to do better in class
How does she balance a goal between:
- Saying prejudice is a big problem
- Saying that most people believe in equality
Don’t want to invalidate marginalized ppls experiences
So they include in the video that prejudice / discrimination are issues, and do take place
but they say what the statistics say: that it is a minority of people that hold these values
Need to communicate these both!
Don’t want to say: everyone is implicitly biased, BUT that everyone wants to work on this
What progress would she like to see in the field?
Hoping to see more field work (and field work not costing ppl tenure or jobs)
Wants more applied questions!
Wants to see what’s MOST effective in changing intergroup attitudes
