Prejudice Flashcards
Components of Group Antagonism
Affective: Prejudice
Behavioural: Discrimination
Cognitive: Stereotype
Why do people form and use stereotype
Schemas
- remembering
- encoding
- attention
subtyping!!
is stereotyping absent if members of different groups are rated the same?
shifting standards: judgements are influenced by relative comparisons
objective scales
subjective scales
consequences of stereotyping
- we can be victims of stereotyping and not even recognise it
- people perform poorly
theories about prejudice
- social learning theory (Bandura)
- motivational perspectives
- cognitive perspectives
- social identity perspectives
- self-esteem is defined form group
origin of prejudice
PERCEIVED THREAT
- symbolic
- materialistic
- zero-sum outcome
- realistic conflict theory
social identity: mental processes involved
- social categorization (schemas)
- social identification
- social comparison
definition of social identity
Social identity is a person’s sense of who they are based on their group membership
definition of minimal intergroup situation
any situation involving contact between two or more minimal groups
social identity theory to explain prejudice
explains ingroup favoritism
to maintain self-esteem
how to maintain social identity?
- minimal intergroup situation
- in-group favoritism effect
- group-serving bias
- out-group homogeneity effect
- assumed similarity effect
contact hypothesis
increasing contact between different groups can reduce prejudice
how to reduce prejudice?
- contact hypothesis
- recategorization
- superordinate goals
- cross-cutting category
how in inequality perceived differently by different groups
depends on whether it is the experiencer or perpetrator
from perpetrator pov:
- people are risk averse;
- any potential changes are seen as a “loss”
bias-ness in our beliefs about inequality
because we live in a relatively segregated environment, our judgments are based on our own environment
glass ceiling
a barrier that prevents women from obtaining high-status jobs
glass cliff effect
women are more likely to receive high-status jobs during periods of crisis
zero sum outcome
if one gains, the other one loses
