PSY 0105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Contact Hypothesis, Meta-Analysis, Social Identity Theory
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Mlk jr: teacher demonstrated the power of prejudice (all white students, said blue eyed kids are better than brown eyed students, blue eyed students began to treat brown eyed students poorly to maintain their newfound social status. Prejudice: a negative prejudgment of a group and its individual members (whether it is true or not) Discrimination: unfair treatment of members of a particular group based on their membership in that group (prejudice behavior) Stereotypes: beliefs about the personal attributes of a group of people. Called (cid:449)hite people o(cid:374) the pho(cid:374)e a(cid:374)d asked (cid:862)(cid:449)ould you des(cid:272)ri(cid:271)e a (cid:271)la(cid:272)k perso(cid:374) i(cid:374) this (cid:449)ay(cid:863) Racism in hiring sent 5000 phantom applications to job ads in chicago and boston. Resumes were identical and were given white or black names. White sounding names received 50% more call-backs (2003) Combine 24 studies who replicated the one above and the meta-a(cid:374)alysis fou(cid:374)d . Old-fashioned racism: ascribing negative traits and opposing equal rights.
