PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Stanford Prison Experiment, Implicit Stereotype, Social Loafing
2 Jul 2018
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Stereotypes are based on automatic categorization
- Stereotype: a generalization about a group of people in which identical characteristics are
assigned to virtually all members of the group, regardless […]
Your Name Matters
- In 2006, researchers sent 1,100 identically worded email inquiries to LA area landlords
- the inquiries were signed randomly, with an equal number signed
- patrick Mcdougal
- Tyrell Jackson
- Said Al-Rahman
- McDougall received positive or encouraging replies from 89 percent of landlords
- Al-Rahman was encouraged by 66 of the landlords
- only 56 percent responded positively to Jackson
Stereotypes Can Lead to Prejudice
- Negative stereotypes of groups lead to:
- prejudice (look on slides
- INgroup/outgroup bias:
- some people are more likely to develop associations between aversive events and
members of an outgroup
- those people appear to be more likely to be racially biased
- the formation of ingroup and outgroup distinctions appear to occur early in life
Social Categorization: US vs THEM
- For example, in Jane Elliot’s third-grade classroom, children grouped according to eye color
began to act differently based on that social categorization
- Blue-eyed children, the superior group, stuck together and actively promoted and used their
higher status and power in the classroom
- they formed an in-group, defined as the group with which an individual identifies
- The blue-eyed kids saw the brown-eyed ones as outsiders — different and inferior
- to the blue-eyed children, the brown-eyed kids were the out-group, the group with which
individual does not identify
Stereotypes can lead to prejudice
- outgroup homogeneity effect
- ingroup favoritism
- women are quicker than men to form in-group bias perhaps as a result of evolution
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Document Summary
Stereotype: a generalization about a group of people in which identical characteristics are assigned to virtually all members of the group, regardless [ ] In 2006, researchers sent 1,100 identically worded email inquiries to la area landlords. The inquiries were signed randomly, with an equal number signed. Mcdougall received positive or encouraging replies from 89 percent of landlords. Al-rahman was encouraged by 66 of the landlords. Only 56 percent responded positively to jackson. Some people are more likely to develop associations between aversive events and members of an outgroup. Those people appear to be more likely to be racially biased. The formation of ingroup and outgroup distinctions appear to occur early in life. For example, in jane elliot"s third-grade classroom, children grouped according to eye color began to act differently based on that social categorization. Blue-eyed children, the superior group, stuck together and actively promoted and used their higher status and power in the classroom.
