PSYC 2380 Lecture 13: Prejudice Part 2

• School: University of Houston
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2380
• Professor: Anderson Jill

Document Summary

Prejudice arises from competition between groups for scarce resources. Social identity theory: feeling superior to others. The we aspect of our self-concept; the part of our answer to who am i? that comes from our group memberships. Ingroup bias expresses and supports a positive self-concept. People"s self-protective emotional and cognitive responses when confronted with reminders of their mortality. Motivation to avoid prejudice can lead people to modify their thoughts an actions. Self-conscious people will feel guilt and try to inhibit their prejudicial response. Social identity theory implies that those who feel their social identity keenly will concern themselves with correctly categorizing people as us or them. Perception of outgroup members as more similar to one another than are ingroup members. Tendency for people to more accurately recognize faces of their own race. Person"s expectation of being victimized by prejudice or. Given limited experience with a particular social group, we recall examples of it and generalize.