PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Authoritarian Personality, Realistic Conflict Theory, Abu Ghraib
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Prejudice is one of the most important issues of psychological inquiry. Aversive racists genuinely believe in equality, but unconsciously harbor racial prejudice: ex. Implicit prejudice is more detrimental o prejudiced groups because the cause of inequalities is unrecognized. Reasons: 1) right-wing extremism (associated with explicit prejudice towards out-groups) appears to be on the rise, the fear of out-groups is on the rise with donald trump in power, ex. We seek out our own news sources and are exposed to more media on the daily: ex. People who supported isreal, only accepted and read the news sources of israelis (and the same for palestinians). Since they don"t agree with that group, they didn"t look at their papers. Women and warmth: prejudice biased evaluation of a group based on imagined characteristics of a group, different from stereotype since it is evaluative, generally negative. This can lead to violence, human rights violations, war crimes, and genocide: ex.