PSYC 473 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Korean Name, Implicit Stereotype, In-Group Favoritism
25 Apr 2013
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Most of us believe that stereotyping and prejudice are the problems of others, and not ourselves, and our own minor lapses hardly pose a threat to the social order. Jones asserted that stereotypes are just expectancies that we hold about a category. According to jones, we have expectancies about every person with whom we interact, making stereotyping a far more common component of everyday thought than many of us would like to believe. We all have beliefs about the groups of individuals with whom we interact, which are derived from prior experience. Expectancies about groups can be defined as our beliefs about the probability that particular traits, features, characteristics, opinions and behaviors will be observed in those people at some point during our future interactions with them. Stereotypes serve a function of simplifying thought and perception to deliver meaning. Characteristics represented in a stereotype range from being 100% true to being 100% false.
