PSY-B - Psychology PSY-B 370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Ingroups And Outgroups
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Concerns about belonging and trust; you will not be liked, you will be an outsider. Misidentification from the domain; you no long feel your performance is important in a. A perso(cid:374) fro(cid:373) a (cid:373)i(cid:374)ority group feeli(cid:374)g like they (cid:449)o(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e su(cid:272)(cid:272)essful i(cid:374) (cid:272)ollege. Gave black and white college students items from the sat test. Some were told the test measured general intelligence and some were told it did not. Number of correct items were counted and adjusted by previous sat score. White parti(cid:272)ipa(cid:374)ts did(cid:374)"t (cid:373)atter (cid:449)hat they (cid:449)ere told. Black students did poor when told it was a test of intelligence. They became nervous that they would perform more poorly and confirm a stereotype. Because modern prejudice is less overt, it is difficult to know if and when one is the target of prejudice. Master status: perception that a person will be seen only in terms of a stigmatizing attribute rather than as the total self.