Stereotypes Flashcards
What are stereotypes?
‘Pictures in the head’
Walter Lippmann
Is stereotyping cognitive?
yes
Which two national groups did Katz and Braly find most stereotyed?
Jews and african americans
Which two national groups did Katz and Braly find least stereotyped?
Americans and italians
6 decades later, how had stereotypes changed after Katz and Braly’s study?
More favourable stereotypes and are less consensus.
Stereotypes arent disappearing but there are new ones
Which two elements underly stereotypes accoridng to Fiske’s stereotype content model?
Competence and warmth
What are the four quadrants of the stereotype content model?
envy, admiration, contempt, paternalism
What does having a range of people in the middle of the stereotype content model suggest?
Other factos are involved
What was the perceived status and competence correlation in the stereotype content model?
r=0.88;0.98
What was the warmth and perceived competition correlaiton in the stereotype content model?
r= -0.31;-0.64
What did Kay and Jost find about complementary stereotypes?
That the world seemed fairer when people had good and bad stereotypes
What did Lyons and Kashima find in their serial reproduction task?
that stereotype consistent facts were remembered longer than inconsistent
Aer stereotypes more likley shared with strangers or friends?
strangers
What did Maass et al find about how outgroups behavioru was described?
If doing bad stuff, abstractly, if good then concrete.
Opposite to ingroup
What does abstract language fuse stereotypes to?
to groups
