Prejudice Flashcards
What is prejudice?
A social orientation and a faulty belief
Which groups of people did Crandall, Eshleman and O’Brien find okay to be prejudice aganst?
Rapists, child abusers, terrorists…
Sometimes to gay people with children and feminists.
Never to blind, deaf or retarded
What did the bogus pipeline show about prejudice to black people?
When under a lie detector, the black people were still given negative traits
What rates did Crosby find for a helping white bias?
Face-to-face communication- 1/3 pro white
Not face-to-face, 3/4 pro-white
What percent of help was given to someone of the same ethnicity in Crosby’s study?
50%
When is discrimination most evident?
when direct consequences are low
What did research into CVs of black and white people show?
Discrimination is always present from 1990 to now (Quillian, Pager, Hexel)
What did Weitz find a correlation between in his study involving partners and rating how much you like them?
negative correlations between ratings of how much they like the person & measures of voice warmth. over-compensating
What did Vanman et al use to measure electircal activity from muscel groups?
electromyography
What did Vanman find?
There was a self-report black bias but indirect shwoed white bias. Overt thinking and covert disliking
Implicit attitudes link to what behaviours?
Spontaneous
what did Dovidio, Kawakami and Gaertner find about comparing effects of explicit and implicit attitudes on self-ratings?
The explicit prejudice predicts friendliness to the participant.
The implicit attitude is correlated with nonverbal friendliness
What are the approaches of prejudice
Emphasise individual differences and emhasise situational factors
What is modern racism?
presumption that discrimination is a thing of the past.
What is aversive racism?
expressed by the avoidance of inter-racial settings
