PSYCH253 Lecture Notes - Racial Profiling, Wassily Kandinsky, Ingroups And Outgroups
16 Apr 2013
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Divide participants into novel, trivial groups: overestimators vs. underestimators, klee vs. kandinsky. Task: give $ to ingroup and ougroup members. Results: we distribute more rewards to ingroup vs. outgroup. Doesn"t take much to create ingroup favoritism. Prejudice arises when groups compete for the same limited resources. Outgroup hostility and negativity: name calling, stereotype outgroup as more negative (sneaky, stinkers), ingroup as more positive (brave, friendly) Told that a manager in another room was listening. Watched manager evaluate them over a video feed. Complete of word fragments (cr _ _ _, _ _ ap) White waterloo being evaluated negative feedback, thinking black people. Ivs: manager"s race (white vs. black), feedback (+/-) don"t really know what they"re talking about hence they don"t feel so bad for it but for white manager their negative feeling is higher. Iv: salience of racial stereotype about intelligence: diagnostic of ability (threat, nondiagnostic (control) Study2: indicate race (threat, no race question (control)
