Social Psychology: Stereotypes, Prejudice, Discrimination
BIRGing
Basking In Reflected Glory when your group does well, your self esteem increases you try to affiliate with winning group win: say "we" lose: say "they"
discrimination
action taken to harm/inhibit a member of a group
ways to save SE
compare yourself to ingroup member attribute bad performance to prejudice selective devaluing
minimal groups
complete strangers are formed into groups using the most trivial criteria imaginable
selective devaluing
devalue the domain you are being stereotyped in
Eagles and Rattiers summer camp
each group ended up hating each other barriers started to break when they were forced to help each other
deutsch and collins
integrated housing reduced prejudice and acts of discrimination
interracial interactions
interracial interaction -> anxiety and stress -> vigilant control of behavior -> resource depletion
prejudice concern
large number of Stroop interference when it was an interracial interaction
prejudice
like or dislike of a group or group members
social categorization
like own group more, try to stop the other group from achieving, people are more likely to take personal losses if it means they will do better than outgroup
John vs Joan
male AIs graded a paper that was word for word the same but written by a man or woman; more competent when John wrote it
6 conditions when contact hypothesis works
mutual interdependence common goal that is important to both equal status of the group members informal interpersonal contact multiple contacts with several members of the outgroup social norms that promote equality
subtyping
part of stereotypes look at person and think that she is not represented in her group, so i exclude him/her from the group people have to expose lots of that person they are excluding in order for them to get ride of that automatic thought
cross-race effect
people of each race would identify more with that race more than the other
ingroup bias
positive feelings and special treatment for people we have defined as being part of out ingroup and negative feelings and unfair treatment for others simply because we have defined them as being in the outgroup
jigsaw classroom
reduce prejudice and increase SE in the classroom breaks down ingroup/outgroup boundaries increases empathy for those different from you
Stereotypes
shared beliefs about members of a group
what causes prejudice
social categorization ingroup bias
Out-group homogenity
tendency to see all outgroup members as the same fails to allow outgroup members as individuals
contact hypothesis
the idea that merely bringing members of two different groups together will erode prejudice
performance control
they show a bit of a depletion effect
3 types of people with stereotypes
those with no (-) automatic reaction to AA those with a (-) automatic reaction to AA those who have a (-) reaction but want to suppress it
men and complex tasks
when a man is successful on a given task, observers of both sexes attribute his success to ABILITY
women and complex tasks
when a woman is successful on a given task, observers attribute her success to HARD WORK
stereotype threat
when you make people aware of a negative self-relevant stereotype they perform poorly
duncan's ambiguous shove
white Ps watched two videos video 1: two white kids playing and get into a fight video 2: one white one AA, get in fight the shover was rated as more hostile and given a harsher penalty when AA