PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Implicit Stereotype, Fishing Reel, Social Loafing
6 Nov 2018
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More frequent interactions with people from different groups. Exposure to counter stereotypical people or situations can reduce implicit bias. Large-scale collaborative study tested effectiveness of 17 interventions with over 17,000 participants. Interventions involving counter stereotypes were among the most effective. Participants had to read vivid counter stereotypical scenario. Was found that there was reduced implicit bias. They also made participants at counter stereotypical exemplars (black with positive association and white with negative association) These and other interventions appear to be successful because. Links outgroup with positivity and ingroup with negativity. However, effects of a single intervention are short-lived. A collection of individuals who have relations to one another that make them interdependent to some significant degree. The presence of others facilitates or improves human performance. 40 children had to turn a fishing reel as fast as possible. Three trials with another child doing the same thing.
