Lecture 4 Flashcards
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Prejudice
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negative evaluation of a group
2
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Discrimination
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behavioural manifestation of prejudice
3
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Duncan 1976
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Witness ambiguous shove (aggressive vs playful)
respond to which shover belonged (white or african american)
4
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Tajfel et al 1971
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school children, based on minimal group conditions still saw favouritism
5
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Social Identity Theory
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why the favouritism happens.
prefer to have a positive self-concept
6
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Structural consequences
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- category differentiation model (Doise 1978): within group homogeneneity
- Groupness amplified
7
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Explanatory consequences
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- attribution: explaining behavior
- biases in attribution (FAE correspondance bias, self-serving biases - protect selfconcept
8
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Evaluative consequences (prejudice)
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- more positive emotion is felt towards ingroups than outgroups
9
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changes:
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- Individual differences
- Competition (realistic conflict theory - intergroup hostility arrises from competition amongst many groups for material resources)
- Intergroup threat (intergrated threat theory: realistic, symbolic, intergroup anxiety)
10
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Resolving conflict
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- Individual differences (respect)
- intergroup contact (wagner et al 2003 - east and west germany)
- Changing categorization (cognitive representation of outgroup members - not simple anymore)
- promoting cooperation (robber’s cave)