PSYC 260 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: In-Group Favoritism, Stereotype Threat, Homophobia
18 Mar 2014
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Country nationality is an aspect of your identity can cause you yo be labelled and discriminated against racial and ethnic identity is another. Gender, sexual orientation, your religion, your weight, and even age. Modern prejudice people have become careful to outwardly act unprejudiced even if they inwardly maintain their prejudiced views. Participant rates neutral image (like chinese character) as pleasant or unpleasant subsequent to seeing a white or black face. Method 2: push away words or bring words closer prejudiced people pushed away homosexual words. Is not always negative is a way to simplify how we look at the world. Step 1: creation of groups putting some people into one group based on certain characteristics and other into another group based on their different characteristics. In-group bias the tendency to evaluate in-group members more positively than out-group members out-group members are often seen as possessing negative traits and are often disliked.
