PSYC 2P30 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Walter Lippmann, Housing Discrimination, Anti-Fat Bias
22 Nov 2016
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What is prejudice: prejudice is an attitude it has three components, an affective component. Native american, fat shaming, homophobia, etc prejudice on the rise. Women seen as more nurturing and caring, while man seen as competitive and aggressive. Look at the stereotype of women as being more talkative. Benevolent sexism positive stereotypes against women (they are still harmful to women. Modern racism: modern racism outwardly acting unprejudice while inwardly acting prejudice, evans et al 2003. Found participants rated ethic groups higher in the presence of the experimenter compare to when they were by themselves: social psychologist have developed the measuring implicit prejudice test. Which asses your prejudice an unconscious level. It measures speed of peoples positive and negative association to a particular group. The way we think:social categorizing: the first step in prejudice is to group people into categories, human categorized to make sense of the world, in group bias.
