Social Psych Chapter 11 Pt. 1

Compensation

Compensating for the negative stereotypes or attitudes they think other people have toward them.

Oppositional Culture

Create a group identity that opposes the majority group and its characteristic behaviors, ideas, and practices.

Self-Objectification

Cultural scrutiny of the female body leads many girls and women to view themselves as objects to be looked at and judged.

School study by Rosenthal and Jacobson

Demonstrates the power of positive expectations in creating self-fulfilling prophecies.

Devaluing

Devalue areas of life where you face pervasive experiences of prejudice and discrimination.

Attributional Ambiguity

Members of stigmatized groups often can be uncertain whether negative experiences are based on their own actions and abilities or are the results of prejudice.

The "do-nothing" effect

Not responding to or confronting prejudice.

Stereotype Lift

Others can get a boost in performance from reminders that they are positively stereotyped.

Self-affirmation theory

People need to view themselves as good and competent.

Target Empowerment Model

Suggests that targets of bias can employ strategies that deflect discrimination, so long as those actions aren't perceived as confrontational.

Stereotype Threat

The concern that one might do something to confirm a negative stereotype about one's group either in one's own eyes or the eyes of someone else.

Stigma Consciousness

The expectation of being perceived by other people, particularly those in the majority group, in term of one's group membership.

Social identity threat

The feeling that your group is not valued in a domain and that you do not belong there.

Rejection Identification Theory

The negative consequences of being targeted by discrimination can be offset by a strong sense of identification with your stigmatized group.

Master Status

The perception that others will see oneself solely in terms of one aspect rather than appreciating that that aspect is only one part of the total self.

Person-group discrimination discrepancy

The tendency for people to estimate that they personally experience less discrimination than is faced by the average member of their group.

Disidentification

When people no longer feel that their performance in a domain is an important part of themselves, and they stop caring about being successful.

When is the stereotype threat the strongest?

When the stigmatized identy is made salient, when individuals are compared with the superior group, explicitly reminded of the stereotype.

It is more common for people to estimate that they personally experience _____ discrimination than the average member of their group

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