PS270 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Illusory Correlation, Authoritarianism, Authoritarian Personality
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Prejudice a negative prejudgment of a group and its individual members. Discrimination unjustifiable negative behaviour toward a group or its members: prejudice is a negative attitude, discrimination is negative behaviour, often has its source in prejudicial attitudes. Racism prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behaviour toward people of a given races. Sexism prejudicial attitudes and behaviour toward people of a given sex. Prejudiced attitudes seem to surface when they can hide behind the screen of some other motive. Exaggerating ethnic differences, feeling less admiration and affection for immigrant minorities, rejecting them for supposedly non-racial reasons, etc. We can have different explicit (conscious) and implicit (automatic) attitudes toward the same target. Implicit attitudes may linger, changing only as we form new habits through practice. Prejudice can occur outside of people"s awareness. We see other groups as competent or as likeable, but usually not both: we respect the competence of those high in status and like those who agreeable accept a lower status.
