PSYC 2120 Lecture Notes - In-Group Favoritism, Color Blindness, Contact Hypothesis
8 Dec 2012
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Social norms now censure prejudice and people are less likely to express negative feelings publicly discrimination. Some people possess unfavourable implicit attitudes toward disadvantaged groups but are not consciously aware of these negative automatic responses. Old fashioned blatant racial discrimination has been replaced by subtle and ambiguous. Many majority groups members have ambivalent or conflicted feelings toward minorities. Majority group members often support equal opportunities and regard themselves as unprejudiced and nondiscriminatory, but simultaneously harbour some negative beliefs and hostile feelings toward minority group. We may assume too much uniformity or similarity within groups of people, especially with respect to large collections such as, ethnic group, nationalities,genders and occupation. Outgroup homogeneity: the tendency for perceivers to overestimate similarity within groups to which they do not belong inaccurate. Stereotypes of large groups are oversimplified and when applied to a particular individual, often. When we uses stereotypes to categorize people, we frequently make assumptions that are wrong.
