PSYB10H3 Lecture 20: Lecture 20 Notes
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Group-based bias: affect prejudice, behaviour discrimination, cognition stereotyping | outgroup homogeneity. Cognitive component: stereotypes: beliefs about the typical characteristics (usually traits) of group members. Affective component: prejudice: a hostile or negative attitude toward a distinguishable group of people, based only on their membership in that group (not because you don"t like something they did) Behavioural component: discrimination: unjustified negative or harmful action toward a member of a group, simply because of his or her membership in that group, biased only based on them belong to group. Stereotype across time: existed since the existence of society (earliest humans); works as mental shortcuts, not new; but the content of those stereotypes are relevant to current situation, katz & braly (1933): Phase 1 of princeton trilogy : in many cases, a high degree of consensus (agreement) gave impetus to investigate the nature and content of stereotypes. First time stereotype was study and gave basis to it: gilbert (1951)
