Reducing Prejudice

Question 1

Verkuyten (1998)

Answer 1

Prejudice linked to low self-esteem and stress

Question 2

Verkuyten and Thijs (2001)

Answer 2

predujice from feelings of lonlieness and peer rejection

Question 3

Nesdale (2004)

Answer 3

Kids ingroup attitude reflects community attitudes

Question 4

Graves (1999)

Answer 4

Kids reported parents would be angry if played with kids from outgroup

Question 5

Lichter and Johnson (1969)

Answer 5

4 week programme where kids read counter-stereotypical stories of African Americans
Prejudice was reduced in comparison to controls

Question 6

Koeller (1977)

Answer 6

11 year old Americans given stories of Mexican Americans- didn’t reduce prejudice

Question 7

McAdoo (1970)

Answer 7

Evaluated multicultural intervention and found it strengthened negative stereotype

Question 8

Neuberg (1996)

Answer 8

People forget, ignore and distort info that contradicts attitudes

Question 9

Tropp and Pettigrew (1995)

Answer 9

unconscious negative feelings are stronger predictors of prejudice than beliefs

Question 10

Nesdale (2005)

Answer 10

5-12 yr Aus kids
minimal groups
higher empathy increases liking for outgroup

Question 11

Elliott

Answer 11

Blue vs Black eyed

Turn majority into minority

Question 12

Weiner and Wright (1973)

Answer 12

Orange vs green
both chance to be majority and minority
after showed increased willingness to have picnic with Afro-Americans than controls

Question 13

Batson (1993)

Answer 13

3 processes that change intergroup attitudes

Question 14

Aboud (1988)

Answer 14

Cognitive development

Question 15

Piaget (1970)

Answer 15

Have a tendency to sort into rigid categories based on concrete attitudes

Question 16

Bigler and Liben (1993)

Answer 16

4-9 yrs better at classifying leads to reduced stereotyping

Question 17

Bigler and Liben (1992)

Answer 17

Rule training (gender irrelevant for jobs) increases counter stereotypes

Question 18

Biggler (1995)

Answer 18

society uses stereotyping

increased stereotyping in those with less advanced categorical skill

Question 19

Cameron (2007)

Answer 19

extended contact big part in reducing prejudice

Question 20

Allport (1954)

Answer 20

Contact should reduce prejudice in certain conditions

knowledge mediating factor

Question 21

Pettigrew (1997)

Answer 21

Friendship good form of contact

Question 22

Wright (1997)

Answer 22

having friends with friends from outgroup reduces prejudice

Question 23

Tropp and Pettigrew (2005)

Answer 23

Contact stronger effect on affect than cognitions

Question 24

Stephan and Stephan (1985)

Answer 24

create intergoup anxiety will increase prejudice

Question 25

Richeson and Shelton (2003)

Answer 25

intergroup contact impairs performance on stroop test- because executive functions focused on contact

Question 26

Voci and Hewstone (2003)

Answer 26

italian view of african

higher contact led to higher positive attitude but also increase subtle racism

Question 27

Reis and Shaver (1988)

Answer 27

Self-disclosure prominent feature of friendship

Question 28

Turner (2007)

Answer 28

White primary school kids on attitudes with Asians

Self-diclosure and outgroup attitude highest r= .56

Question 29

Batson (1997)

Answer 29

empathy predicts lower prejudice

Question 30

Tam (2009)

Answer 30

Trust of outgroup produces more positive attitude

Question 31

Wright and Lobensky (2009)

Answer 31

intergroup contact reduced likliehood collective action by outgroup

Question 32

Brewer and Miller (1984)

Answer 32

strong social identity needed for collective action

Question 33

Turner (2007)

Answer 33

even imagined contact can reduce prejudice