PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 72: Mike, White Guilt, Ath

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 102
• Professor: Mark Lam

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No effects involving implicit prejudice were found for anxious mood. Participants felt less anxious in the diverse university environment that constituted the setting for the study. Participants who were implicitly prejudice or concerned about outgroup rejection responded to the first cross group interaction with heightened cortisol reactivity: these reactions decreased over the 3 meetings. Over the week and a half after the final cross-group friendship meeting, implicitly prejudice participants sought out more intergroup interactions and participants felt less anxious in the diverse university environment that constituted the setting for the study. Cross-group friendship meeting may have relevance to ethic health disparities in the us. Suggest the possibility that cross group friendship may provide a coping mechanism for people who hold negative intergroup expectations. Among majority group members, by contrast, race-based rejection concerns may center (cid:373)ore arou(cid:374)d assu(cid:373)ptio(cid:374)s a(cid:271)out o(cid:374)e"s o(cid:449)(cid:374) prejudi(cid:272)e.