prejudice,stereotyping,discrimination Flashcards
intergroup bias
a preference or inclination towards/against a certain group
prejudice>discrimination>stereotype>prejudice
explicit bias
concious,blant,people are willing to adimit(to themselves and others)
implicit bias
unexamined,uncousious,ambigious or ambivelent
Aversive racism (Dovidio & Gaertner, 2000)
being racist(negative feeling about a race) despite supporting principles of racial equality and not knowingly discriminating
prejudice
a negatieve ATTITUDE toward an individual soley on the bais of that person’s presumed membership in a particular group
ingroup bias
the tendacy to favor one’s own group,its members,its characteristic,its products particularly in refercen to other groups (normal)
Jane Ellio! Blue Eye/Brown Eye
Exercise (1968)
separated the kids between two groups brown eyes and blue eyes (each they the one group would have more advantages then the other )
Intergreoup threat theory :
realistic threats and symbolic therats
it takes inspiration from Realistic Group Conflict Theory (completion for resources)
realistic therat
PERCIVED threats to existance,political power,physical or material well being of the group
ex:mexicans/immigrants stealing jobs in the US
symbolic threat
percived group differences in moral,values,standerds,belifs and attitudes
ex:scared that the people of the middle east will force their values in frence
people justify prejudice (attitude) with stereotyping (belif/cognitive)
Stereotyping
Overgeneralized belifs about the trait and attributes of member of a particular group
types of stereotypes :
Positive and negative :they both can/are harmful
ex: (positive) jews are rich/control media
ex(negative) black people are criminals
sterotype model
warmth vs competence
Envy: Low wormth, High Competence - rich people
Pride: HIgh wormth,High Competence-in-group
Contempt(disgust):low wormth,Low competence - homeless people
Pity:high wormth, low competence- pugs
stereotypes come from
schemas and representativness heuristics