PSY 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Collective Responsibility, Social Influence, Socioeconomics
23 Aug 2016
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Other thoughts on prejudice: the bogus pipeline. Step 1 rate adjectives as good or bad by button push. Step 2 view photos of various ethnic groups. Step 3 view photos again, indicate if have already seen each photo. Step 4 rate each adjective again after brief priming with photo. Dv is response latency while rating button is pushed faster is valence of word in congruent with valence of photo: gilbert and hixon, 1991 experiment. Given words with missing letters by a person of a certain ethnic group. If an asian woman were giving out the surveys, it would result in different words than a white man for example. Similar to cycle of domestic abuse, there is a cycle of prejudice that is passed down: direct intergroup contact. Kids bussed from different areas in order to mix schools. Did not work because such different socioeconomics.
