PS270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Jungle Gym, High-Heeled Footwear, Realistic Conflict Theory
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Individual differences in implicit racism can predict differences in perceptions of and reactions to others based on their race. Students high in implicit racism, as measured by the iat, were more likely to categorize the faces as black if the faces were angry than if they were happy or neutral. Students low in implicit racism did not show this bias. Social sources of prejudice: social inequities: justifying the status quo, socialization, social inequalities: justifying the status quo. Images distort our perceptions: we tend to accept as true what we see, we rarely learn about the history of gender expectations, pink used to be considered too strong a colour for women to wear. Motivational sources of prejudice: social identity theory. Robbers cave: a field study in intergroup conflict: the simplest explanation for many intergroup conflicts is competition, two groups of boys with no reason to dislike each other, cooperation between groups reduces conflict, superordinate goals.
