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