PSYC2013 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Authoritarian Personality, Pendentive, Positive Tone
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The many targets of stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination. Their occurrence can be influenced by social structures. Stereotypes: beliefs that typical members of the outgroup possess certain characteristics or traits. A widely shared and simplified evaluative image of a social group and its members (vaughan & hogg, 2002) We prejudge people because we identify that individual on the basis of the group we think they belong to - generalization. Prejudice: an attitude (usually negative) toward the members of some group, based solely on their membership in that group - baron & byrne. An antipathy [intense dislike] based upon a faulty and inflexible generalization. It may be directed toward a group as a whole, or toward an individual because he is a member of that group - allport. Discrimination: any negative behaviour directed toward an individual based on his/her membership in a group - nelson.