PSYCH253 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Subtyping, Dispositional Attribution, Prefrontal Cortex
4 Sep 2013
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Experiments: mit researchers sent 5000 resumes with randomly assigned white names out in response to. Race sensitivity leads to exaggerated reactions to isolated minority persons overpraising accomplishments, overcriticizing mistakes, failing to warn about academic difficulty. See anger persist more in black than white face. Less likely to prescribe clot-busting drug to black with chest pain. Exposure to weapons can make people pay more attention to black faces. Automatic prejudice associated with amygdala, wheras controlled processing is involved with prefrontal cortex. Non-jewish authors 40% more likely to cite non-jewish names. Only 22% of men and women thought two sexes equally emotional. Woman have superior moral sensibility is benevolent sexism. Women put men on tight leashes is hostile sexism. In 1968, when article written by female, rated lower even by women. Looking at literature, there are just as many biases towards men as there are towards women, but overall there are no differences. In non-western countries, gender discrimination looms even larger.
