PSY 161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Duncan White, Out-Group Homogeneity, Chinese Whispers

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 161
• Professor: Professor Elliot

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Stereotype: a belief about the personal attributes of a group of people, a cognitive representation that associates a social group with specific attributes in an over simplistic way. Stereotypes as oversimplifications: stereotypes sometimes have a kernel of truth, but they are oversimplified, stereotypes are commonly negative, stereotypes can be positive. Prejudice: a preconceived negative judgment of a group and its individual members. Discrimination: unjustified negative behavior toward a group or its individual members. Where do stereotypes come from: cognitive sources of stereotypes, social categorization, tendency to classify people into groups. Ingroup/outgroup categorization: tendency to classify people as ingroup or outgroup members, consequences, outgroup homogeneity bias, the tendency to perceive outgroup members as being (cid:373)ore si(cid:373)ilar to ea(cid:272)h other tha(cid:374) are (cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)ers of o(cid:374)e"s ingroup. Ingroup bias experience increases self-esteem: self-esteem threat increases ingroup bias, lower status groups show more ingroup bias, basking in reflected glory. Show us what the black stereotype is: check adjectives you believe.