October 31: Discussion Section

Question 1

Lenses: What are they?

Answer 1

Identity-specific schemas for categorizing others (race, gender, religion, etc.)

Use one at a time, but can be intersectional

Question 2

What does the lenses paper show across experiments in general?

Answer 2

1. Tend to use just one lense at a time
2. This lense can be singular and simplistic (just gender) or intersectional (gender + race)
3. Lenses prescribe categorically distinct sets of stereotypes that perceivers use as frameworks for thinking about others

Question 3

Lens Accessibility

Answer 3

Ease with which a social lens can be retrieved from memory

Question 4

Lens fit

Answer 4

Extent to which a lens explains normatively or comparatively patterns of ingroup behavior in a context

Question 5

Why do we select some lenses over others?

Answer 5

Perceiver goals, context of situation, and fit

Question 6

Distinctiveness

Answer 6

Extent to which lens-associated identity is rare and thus attention-grabbing in a social context

Question 7

Comparative Fit (Lenses)

Answer 7

Comparative fit: extent to which intergroup behavior correlates with target’s social identities in a social context.

Example: see black vs. white or women vs. men. What lense do you use?

Question 8

Lense Experiment 3: What was cool about it?

Answer 8

When stereotypes agree: old women = church, higher effect than when stereotypes disagree (example: Black women = aggressive)

Question 9

Gender math bias

How does the stereotype = girl bad at math

Answer 9

Even when girl’s scores higher, students still believed boys innately better.

Peer-environemtn also contributes to stress among girls about parent expectations.

Stereotype activation reduced math abilitys in college students

Mechanism: low motivation, less involvement in extracurriculars.

Only true for Math, not Chinese/English

Impact immediate performance

Question 10

How do you select the lens to use?

Answer 10

Context

Women vs. men, black vs. white, what is going on?

Question 11

Take aways of gender bias stereotype research?

Answer 11

1. Impact where the stereotype is relevant
2. Stereotyped beliefs transmitted in ambient environment and affect academics

Question 12

Pro diversity take away: we need to make pro diversity norms

Answer 12

Salient

Because you engage in behavior you perceive as more common