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Post Midterm 1: Feb 14-21 Flashcards

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social category

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mental representation of a group of people based on features that characterize that class of people

a) efficient, helpful for navigating social world

b) people can be perceived by many social categories, but they’re not all active in any given moment

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social categorization versus stereotype activation versus stereotype application

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social categorization:
a) classifying a person based on features you can INFER

stereotype activation:
a) extent to which a stereotype becomes accessible in one’s mind

stereotype application:
a) extent to which a stereotype is used in judging/acting toward members of a target group

categorization occurs first, followed by stereotype activation and then by application

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most basic social categories in North America

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gender, age, race

these groups are:
- easily observable
- have lots of social meaning

inferred first, quickly, effortlessly, spontaneously

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how fast do adults encode race and gender?

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within 300 ms

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efficiency of social categorization ERP setup

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white participants passively viewed images of MALE and FEMALE, BLACK and WHITE people

some categorized the images based on GENDER, others on RACE

ERPs were also tracked during the judgment process

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efficiency of social categorization ERP study: ERPs revealed diffs in processing of race and gender within what times?

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race: within 100 ms

gender: within 200 ms

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we categorize by deciding whether a new stimulus resembles…

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known EXEMPLARS from a category

hard to verbalize why certain stimuli are better/worse matches for certain categories

no airtight definition

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people that are hard to categorize cause what two things?

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  1. motivation to socially categorize
  2. discomfort for the perceiver
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two groups we often divide people into

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  1. ingroups: groups we identify with and belong to
  2. outgroups: groups we don’t identify with and don’t belong to
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prototypicality

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extent to which a person fits the observer’s concept of the essential characteristics of a social category

higher prototypicality:
i) easier, faster, more frequent social categorization
ii) increased stereotyping

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prototypicality: death penalty or life in prison?

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looked at photos from cases involving White victims and Black defendants in Philadelphia

faces higher in Black prototypicality got death penalty 56% of the time

faces lower in Black prototypicality got death penalty 24% of the time

controlling for: attractiveness, mitigating circumstances, murder severity, defendant SES, victim SES

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lab studies: prototypicality and ‘shooter bias’

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all faces were Black but ranged from high to low prototypicality

added in the moderator of prototypicality

higher biases in perception for more prototypical faces

most likely to get racial judgments for those high in prototypicality

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identities that are more ______ are more likely to be socially categorized and stereotyped

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visible

ie. black, 20s or younger, woman, long haired, brown eyed, human

versus invisible

ie. lesbian, conservative, canadian, cat person, likes country music

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visible identities aren’t just about what we see with our eyes!

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visibility is based on all our sense: vision, hearing, touch, taste, smell

visibility is based on cues in the situation

ie. “who sounds gay” video

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the _______ determines what social categories are most salient

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situation

and our GOALS determine what we’re looking for

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situation and context examples: categories that are most salient

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football game:
a) focus: what sports team a person supports (what jersey they’re wearing)
b) race and gender less easily categorized

looking for directions in a foreign city:
a) focus: people who look like they know the directions (locals vs tourists)

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subtype

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sub-categories within a social category

ie.
old people = warm
grandmothers = very warm
old men = crotchety

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“re-fencing”

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when counter-stereotypical information is concentrated in a single outgroup member, the person may be perceived to be an isolated exception

“when a fact cannot fit into a mental field, the exception is acknowledged, but the field is fenced in again and not allowed to remain dangerously open”

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“re-fencing” example

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there are different stereotypes for for “Black people” versus “Black politicians”

Black politicians are considered “exceptions” - they’re a subgroup

why Obama’s presidentship didn’t really change racial attitudes in the US

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stereotype content model

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all stereotypes form along 2 dimensions: warmth and competence

these dimensions are fundamental to person perception with evolutionary adaptive benefits

a) WARMTH: “will they harm or help me?”
b) COMPETENCE: “can they act on their intentions?”

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example questions for rating competence and warmth

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competence: “as viewed by society, how competent are members of this group?”

warmth: “as viewed by society, how warm are members of this group?”

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competence warmth dimensions and the attitudes they inspire

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high competence, high warmth:
ADMIRATION

low competence, low warmth:
CONTEMPT

high competence, low warmth:
ENVY

low competence, high warmth:
PITY

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examples of groups/people that are typically associated with admiration, contempt, envy and pity

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  1. admiration: Tom Hanks or ingroup
  2. contempt: homeless
  3. envy: the rich
  4. pity: children
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new discovery - approach to see how people spontaneously stereotype

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data-driven approach

one set of participants given a “pile” of groups and instructed to ORGANIZE them in space however they wanted
- closer = more similarly associated

another set was instructed to DESCRIBE what those clusters were

used fancy computations to see how block placement maps onto meaning

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“the third dimension”

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agrees that warmth and competence contribute to categorization

but ADDs a dimension: IDEOLOGY
a) conservative/progressive
b) traditional/non-traditional

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relationships between ideology, warmth and competence

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competence is largely independent from ideology

BUT warmth is connected:

a) groups more similar to your ideology as perceived as WARMER

b) groups less similar to your ideology are perceived as COLDER

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ideology is related to ______, but not really to _________

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related to WARMTH

but not really to COMPETENCE

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racial position model

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racial/ethnic minority groups within the US are perceived along two dimensions

  1. inferiority
  2. cultural foreignness

negativity towards a group will be expressed differently based on feelings of inferiority versus foreignness (or combo of both)

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racial position model: races fit into what squares

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foreign and superior:
ASIAN

foreign and inferior:
LATINX

american and superior:
WHITE

american and inferior:
BLACK

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racial position model dimensions are important for understanding what three things?

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  1. perceived discrimination
  2. perceptions of group threats
  3. strategic use of stereotypes
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racial position model: helps us understand perceived discrimination

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minority groups may be more likely to experience discrimination on one basis but not the other

“your are so articulate” [competence]
- towards a Black person

“you don’t share our values” [foreignness]
- towards a Muslim

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racial position model: helps us understand perceptions of group threats

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Latinx immigrants being perceived as an invading cultural threat to Black communities
- combo of foreignness and inferiority

Asian Americans are perceived as competing for high-paying jobs
- combo of superiority and foreignness

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racial position model: helps us understand strategic use of stereotypes

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Barack Obama was difficult to portray as inferior

but was often portrayed as foreign (ie. people saying he was born in Kenya - which he wasn’t)

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Linda Zou

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leading expert on intergroup relations

particularly concerning how shifts in group demographics may change intergroup beliefs, perceptions and behaviours

lead author on 2017 paper supporting the “racial position model”

“double jeopardy hypothesis”: Black women are more likely to be targets of prejudice than Black men

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outgroup homogeneity effect

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tendency to perceive more similarity in outgroups than in ingroups

if you see all outgroup members as similar, it’s easy to stereotype them

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outgroup homogeneity effect: McGill and UofT students

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rated students from rival uni as more similar to each other than members of their own uni were

rated members of their own uni as more diverse than members of other uni

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mechanisms behind outgroup homogeneity

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  1. quantity of contact
  2. quality of contact
  3. motivation to be distinct
  4. motivation to dehumanize
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outgroup homogeneity mechanism: quantity of contact

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people interact MORE with ingroup members

consequence: have more individuating information about ingroup members and their unique qualities

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outgroup homogeneity mechanism: quality of contact

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interactions with ingroup members are typically higher-quality

consequence: people have more individuating info about ingroup members and their unique qualities

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outgroup homogeneity mechanism: motivation to be distinct

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people are motivated to see themselves as at least somewhat distinct from the groups they belong to

nod back to social identity theory

consequence: LOOK for ways to distinguish themselves from their ingroup to maintain their individuality

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outgroup homogeneity mechanism: motivation to dehumanize

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in some cases, we want to dehumanize others to maintain sense that ingroup is SUPERIOR to others

consequence: outgroup members are seen as homogenous and not separate individuals

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5 antecedents of stereotyping

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  1. outgroup homogeneity effect
  2. cross-race effect
  3. ultimate attribution error
  4. illusory correlations
  5. social reality & stereotype accuracy
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cross race effect (CRE)

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tendency to more easily RECOGNIZE and REMEMBER own-race faces compared to cross-race faces

consequence of outgroup homogeneity

related both to one’s MOTIVATION and to one’s ABILITY to attend to outgroup faces

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one famous study on the CRE compared facial memory of…

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a) White, French citizens (~28 years old)

b) Native Koreans who lived in France for a number of years (~32 years old)

c) Children adopted from Korea living in France (arrived in France at ~6 years old, age testing at ~30 years old)

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one famous study on the CRE compared facial memory… TAKEAWAY

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for the ethnically Korean group who’d been adopted and raised in France

better recognition of Caucasian rather than Asian faces

strong support that it’s not just about a match in visual similarity

brain is being trained to recognize certain types of faces through exposure

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CRE and police line-ups

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eye witness testimony

already an unreliable measure - often wrong

and if people aren’t good at recognizing out-group faces, but must identify “who did it” - there will probably be more incorrect sentencing for other races

ie. White people choosing the wrong Black person for a crime because of their shoddy memory

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implications of CRE: Innocence Project DNA Exoneration in the US

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of cases that were overturned that involved eyewitness misidentification

42% involved instance of cross-racial misidentification

this number is prob partly driven by racial prejudice, but also by cognitive errors in perceiving differences in outgroup faces

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attribution

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process of explaining the causes of behaviours or events

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ultimate attribution error

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social world is ambiguous

this is especially true when we’re trying to figure out WHY something happened

dispositional vs situational attributions

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fundamental attribution error (FAE)

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tendency to explain our own and other people’s behaviour in terms of dispositional traits rather than situational characteristics

a) Oscar the Grouch
b) Oscar who behaves grouchily due to his living situation

aka ultimate attribution error (UAE)

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FAE/UAE: attributions depend on

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  1. ingroup versus outgroup
  2. positive versus negative behaviour
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your team makes a great play - what attribution are you likely to make?

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“the players are so talented!”

as opposed to “they were so lucky!”

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membership - valence chart

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ingroup membership and positive valence:
DISPOSITIONAL ATTRIBUTION

outgroup membership and positive valence:
SITUATIONAL ATTRIBUTION

ingroup membership and negative valence:
SITUATIONAL ATTRIBUTION

outgroup membership and negative valence:
DISPOSITIONAL ATTRIBUTION

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when viewing video of someone shoving someone else: differences in attribution if the person is Black versus White

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White person: situational attribution

Black person: “the person is violent”
^stereotypical beliefs about the whole group

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UAE at elite consulting firm

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recruiters concluded that Black and women candidates who failed a math test were “not rock stars” at math, but White men who failed were “having a bad day”

real world outcome - who gets given a job versus who doesn’t

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illusory correlation

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when people see two DISTINCTIVE events, they assume the events are correlated

note: the two most likely kinds of info to stick in our memory are 1) rare things and 2) negative things

^feeds stereotypes: because outgroups are comparatively rare, and when this is compared with negative info then it really sticks

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group A versus group B statements - illusory correlation SETUP

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participants read 39 statements about POSITIVE or NEGATIVE behaviours committed by members of Group A or Group B

Group A was the MAJORITY (26 statements) and Group B was the MINORITY (13 statements)

Group A had 18 positive and 8 negative behaviours

Group B had 9 positive and 4 negative behaviours

^SAME RATIO

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group A versus group B statements - illusory correlation RESULTS

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even though there was the same ratio of positive to negative behaviours

participants memory showed they OVER-ATTRIBUTED negative behaviours to Group B (minority group with less info)

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when do people assume group membership and behaviour are associated?

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  1. a person’s group stands out
  2. a person’s behaviour stands out
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what 2 things stand out the most?

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  1. smaller (minority) groups
  2. negative behaviours
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illusory correlation Arab-Muslim example

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  1. some Arab-Muslim people commit a terrorist attack
  2. illusory correlation: Arab-Muslims are very likely to be terrorists
  3. ACTUAL BASE RATE:
    # of terrorists/350 million Arab-Muslims
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transmission of stereotypes: social learning

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parents and peers transmit stereotypes directly and indirectly

DIRECT: rewarded/punished for own behaviour

INDIRECT: seeing someone else’s behaviour

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transmission of stereotypes: children watching attitudes towards 2 women actors study

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5 year old kids showed:

a. greater EXPLICIT PREFERENCES for the preferred actor

b. indicated preferred actor should receive end of study REWARD

c. adopted LABEL provided by preferred actor

d. IMITATED object usage of preferred actor

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transmission of stereotypes: media influence

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films, magazines, TV, ads

present and reinforce stereotypes

ie. Arab characters: heartless, brutal, uncivilized

ie. Black men: poor and/or criminals

ie. Men: authorities or professionals

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Dixon and Linz (2000): study of portrayal of African Americans in Media

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analyzed 16 metropolitan news broadcats

Black people accounted for about 20% of criminal activity but about 40% of suspects pictured

conversely, White people were underrepresented as perpetrators and overrepresented as victims

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more subtle example of media transmitting stereotypes: “the science of satire”

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The New Yorker cover - cartoon of Michelle Obama shaking the hand of an Obama made to look like Osama Bin Laden

clearly satire - making fun of the “terrorist fist bump” (background: Michelle Obama had fist-bumped this guy and racist people freaked out)

but not everyone gets the nuance of this cover and don’t see it satirically - they just come to associate Black people with terrorism

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portrayal of African Americans in media: poorness statistics

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27% of poor Americans are Black

but Black people make up 63% of poor people portrayed in the top news networks

two national surveys found that White respondents believe that 50% of the nation’s poor are Black

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Dixon (2008) studied relationship between TV news-watching and perceptions of African Americans

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network exposure was:

a. NEGATIVELY related to estimates of African American income (r = 0.37)

b. POSITIVELY related to negative stereotypes (r = 0.48)

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transmission of stereotypes: children who watch more TV have

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stronger GENDER and RACIAL stereotypes

but can’t make too much of these studies because they’re only correlational

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transmission of stereotypes: adults who watch more news have

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stronger stereotypes for Black and Muslim people

but can’t make too much of these studies because they’re only correlational

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transmission of stereotypes: Gender and Advertising Experiment setup

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commercials with traditional or non-traditional gender roles

“write an essay imagining your life 10 years from now” - write about CAREER AMBITIONS versus HOMEMAKING

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transmission of stereotypes: Gender and Advertising Experiment results

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seeing gender stereotypes caused women to reduce expressed career ambitions

women who saw commercials with more traditional gender roles wrote more about traditional gender roles in their essays about their futures

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Gordon Moskowitz

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Prof at Lehigh Uni

McGill undergrad

expert on social categorization and stereotyping

specifically known for his work on “chronic egalitarians” - people who are better able to limit stereotype activation and application

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chronic egalitarians

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people who have a CONSISTENT and AUTOMATIC goal of reducing activation of stereotypes

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internal motivation to control prejudice

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self-report scale that deals with extent to which limiting prejudice is personally important

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implementation intentions

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if-then plans given to people to help goal pursuit

ie. “If I see a Black person, then I’ll try to be non-biased”

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dehumanization

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perceptions of people as lacking the MENTAL or PHYSICAL capacities of regular human beings

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Sumner on dehumanization, from Folkways (1906)

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“When Caribs were asked whence they came, they answered “We alone are people. The meaning of the name Kiowa is “real or principle people”. The Lapps call themselves “men” or “human beings”…As a rule it is found that people call themselves “men”. Others are something else - perhaps not defined - but not real men. In myths the origin of their own group is that of the real human race. They do not account for the others.”

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historical dehumanization of Black people in the US - two quotes

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  1. “The Black man has no rights which the White man is bound to respect…He may justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery…and treated as an ordinary article of traffic and merchandise.”
    - Dred Scott v. Sandford (1856)
  2. “Representatives…shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons…three fifths of all other Persons.”
    - 13th Amendment (1868)
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no-so historical dehumanization: Prince Harry Spare book quote

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on killing 25 Taliban fighters…

“While in the heat of combat, I didn’t think of those 25 as people. You can’t kill people if you think of them as people.”

“They were chess pieces removed from the board, Bads taken away before they could kill Goods. I’d been trained to ‘other-ize’ them, trained well. On some level I recognized this learned detachment as problematic. But I also saw it as an unavoidable part of soldiering.”

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older approaches to measuring dehumanization took a more…

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subtle approach

unlike the study of stereotypes, which began as more blatant and progressed to more subtle

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emotion granting/denial: older approaches to measuring dehumanization

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granting everyone “primary emotions”
- happiness, pleasure, excitement, sadness

denial of “secondary emotions” to outgroup
- compassion, tenderness, bitterness, shame

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subtle dehumanization: ascription of “human” emotions

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primary emotions (ie. fear, panic) versus secondary emotions (ie. remorse, embarrassment)

ascribe LESS SECONDARY EMOTIONS to outgroups

occurs for BOTH positive and negative emotions

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study of emotion ascription: older approaches to measuring dehumanization SETUP

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participants were presented with POSITIVE and NEGATIVE

a) PRIMARY emotions (happy/angry)

b) SECONDARY emotions (content/resigned)

were told to circle words that best repped their ingroup (Canadians) or outgroup (Spaniards)

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study of emotion ascription: older approaches to measuring dehumanization RESULTS

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ascribed more secondary emotions than primary emotions to ingroup

ascribed more primary emotions than secondary emotions to outgroup

effect existed for both positive and negative emotions

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less subtle dehumanization: study with 5 year olds and artificial faces SETUP

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5 year olds

task: presented a bunch of artificial faces

manipulation: the faces are from a foreign land, or they’re not

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less subtle dehumanization: study with 5 year olds and artificial faces RESULTS

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when kids think a face is foreign, considered less ‘human’

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implicit dehumanization: 1st, 5th, 6th grade students IAT SETUP

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samples of student from first, fifth and sixth grade completed an IAT

measuring associations between Spanish (ingroup) and Arab (outgroup) names

with “human” (logic, mature) versus “animal” (wild, feral) words

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implicit dehumanization: 1st, 5th, 6th grade students IAT RESULTS

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all three samples of students showed ingroup/human and outgroup/animal associations on the IAT

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implicit dehumanization: 1st, 5th, 6th grade students IAT FOLLOW-UP STUDY

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asked students to connect each name (either Spanish or Arab) with a single word (human or animal)

participants chose more animal-related words for outgroup members than for ingroup members

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“blatant” dehumanization early work study SETUP

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Bandura et al (1975)

participants “supervised” a 3-person group in other room

participants told to give the group a shock if they made the wrong decision in the task

participants overheard experimenter describing the groups

3 descriptions:
a) HUMANIZED: group is “perceptive and understanding”

b) DEHUMANIZED: group is “animalistic, rotten bunch”

c) NEUTRAL: no description

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“blatant” dehumanization early work study RESULTS

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humanized group got the least intense shocks

neutral group got was in the middle

DEHUMANIZED GROUP RECEIVED THE MOST INTENSE SHOCKS

takeaway: dehumanization led to more aggression (as measured by intensity of shocks given)

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why is the shock study considered illuminating of a more “blatant” dehumanization?

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because it shows that dehumanization has implications for blatant behaviours: the administration of shocks

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big measure used in blatant dehumanization

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ascent of man scale

from ape to man

showed the scale, and then had people use a slider to indicate the positions of various groups along it

ie. Arabs, Russians, Muslims, Australians, Americans, Swedes…

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ascent of man scale: average levels of dehumanization

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participants: Americans who weren’t members of any of these groups

Europeans, Swiss, Japanese, French, Australian, Austrian, Icelandic - all NOT RELIABLY DIFFERENT from Americans

but Chinese, South Korean, Mexican Immigrants, Arabs and Muslims are seen as RELIABLY MORE ANIMALISTIC

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associations of blatant dehumanization: blatant dehumanization of Arabs and Muslims leads to higher likelihood of what 4 things?

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  1. immigration opposition
  2. less helping
  3. support of militaristic aggression
  4. drone strike support

note: blatant dehumanization remains a predictor of policy beliefs after controlling for measures of explicit anti-Muslim prejudice

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blatant dehumanization remains a predictor of policy beliefs after…

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controlling for measures of explicit anti-Muslim prejudice

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what happens to dehumanization when the ingroup is threatened?

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its levels rise

ie. huge increase in Anti-Islamic hate crimes after 9/11 and after the Boston Marathon bombing

99
Q

dehumanization and refugee crisis

A

super high levels of blatant dehumanization and prejudice towards especially Muslim refugees

100
Q

blatant dehumanization of Muslim refugees is connected to what 3 things?

A
  1. support of anti-refugee policies
  2. less asylum support
  3. signing anti-refugee petition

note: results persist after controlling for more traditional measures of prejudice (ie. thermometers towards Muslim refugees)

101
Q

subtle dehumanizing versus blatant dehumanizing versus prejudice

A

are related but distinct measures

they aren’t redundant

each are their own psychological construct

102
Q

meta-dehumanization

A

how do you respond when you think others are dehumanizing you?

example: kid named Ahmed Mohamed - “they made me feel like I wasn’t human”

one day he brought a clock he’d been working on to school

teacher thought it was a bomb and called the cops

he was arrested

103
Q

dehumanization and _____ can create a …

A

meta-dehumanization

vicious cycle

104
Q

dehumanization vicious cycle: survey of 200 Muslims…

A

survey of 200 Muslims:

“Donald Trump sees people from Muslim backgrounds as sub-human”

“Donald Trump thinks of people from Muslim backgrounds as animal-like”

105
Q

dehumanization vicious cycle: survey of 200 Muslims - AVERAGE RATING

A

on scale of 1 (didn’t feel dehumanized at all) to 7 (felt dehumanized intensely)

average = 5.66

106
Q

dehumanization vicious cycle: survey of 200 Muslims RESULTS

A

Muslims who felt more dehumanized were

  1. more likely to DEHUMANIZE TRUMP (using the ascent of man scale)
  2. more likely to support VIOLENT ACTION
  3. less willing to assist COUNTER-TERRORISM efforts
107
Q

correlation - ratings of meta-dehumanization and dehumanization of Donald Trump

A

r = 0.68

strong correlation

108
Q

vicious cycle: high power groups can also feel meta-dehumanized

A

across multiple studies, Kteily and colleagues found that:

privileged high power groups feel meta-dehumanized by minority low power groups

and reciprocate with dehumanization

109
Q

Jeff Yang: recent advances in dehumanization

A

mechanistic form of dehumanization towards Asian people

“you know how the caricature goes: We’re STEM-brained but inarticulate. Industrious but uninspired. Capable but lacking in creativity. We’re robots who can only copy and clone and grub and grind…”

110
Q

media portrayals of Asian people often commit what kind of dehumanization?

A

mechanistic

ie. often cyborg/robot characters are visibly Asian

or the article about Nathan Chen (ice skater) in which he is described as ROBOTIC

111
Q

blatant mechanistic dehumanization scale

A

just like the ascent of man scale

except instead of ape on one end, it’s a calculator

goes from calculator to computer, to abstract robot, to human-like robot, to human

when given to White sample, Asian targets are dehumanized more mechanically than Black targets are

112
Q

blatant animalistic/mechanistic dehumanization: implications for hiring study SETUP

A

measuring dehumanization is hard in the lab - esp when testing hiring managers

often go out of their way to favour outgroup participants

so instead of saying “who should you hire”, ask “which job is the best fit for this person/which candidate is the best fit for this job?”

manipulated if job would be better performed by a techy/numbers/calculated person (mechanical) or personable/social/creative person (animalistic)

113
Q

blatant animalistic/mechanistic dehumanization: implications for hiring study RESULTS

A

when position needed to avoid animalistic traits, Asian applicants were judged as more suitable

when position needed to avoid mechanical traits, Black applicants were judged as more suitable

114
Q

Ntour Kteily

A

associate prof at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management

McGill alum

leading expert on intergroup relations, social categorization and dehumanization

recipient of multiple early career research awards and Gordon Allport prize for research on intergroup relations

lead author on 2015 paper introducing concept of “blatant dehumanization”

115
Q

motivation to express prejudice

A

related to internal/external motivation to control prejudice

recent research finds that some people have a REAL DESIRE to EXPRESS their prejudices

116
Q

reverse correlation

A

new technique in social psych literature

for trying to subtly measure the way people mentally rep other groups

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