PSYC 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11-14: Road Rage, Stereotype Threat, Fishing Reel

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: Lauren Human

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Discrimination negative or harmful behavior directed towards members of a particular group based. Modern racism rejection of explicitly racist beliefs (because not socially acceptable), but private feeling of animosity, suspicion, discomfort with a particular group. emerge if it is possible to justify or rationalize it embrace conventional roles. Conviction that stereotypes need to be negative to be harmful: they are unlikely to behave in a racist manner when it would be obvious, but it is more likely to, e. g. Men wanting to take care of women that submit to the traditional roles discriminatory behaviors. If there were flaws in both applications, the black applicants were lacking in important categories as opposed to the white applicants (justification of their: e. g. One white and one black college applicants with equivalent and perfect cvs no discriminatory response, which was to reject the black student(cid:495)s application(cid:524).