PSY 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Social Dominance Orientation, In-Group Favoritism, Authoritarian Personality
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What is the nature and power of prejudice: prejudice is a preconceived negative judgment of a group and its individual members, stereotype- a belief about the personal attributes of a group of people. Stereotypes are sometimes overgeneralized, inaccurate, and resistant to new information: discrimination- unjustified negative behavior toward a group or its members, prejudice exists in subtle and unconscious guises as well as overt, conscious forms. Researchers have devised subtle survey questions and indirect methods for assessing people"s attitudes and behavior to detect unconscious prejudice. Ingroup- us a group of people who share a sense of belonging, a feeling of common identity: outgroup- them a group that people perceive as distinctively different from or apart from their ingroup. Ingroup bias- the tendency to favor one"s own group: terror management- people"s self-protective emotional and cognitive responses (including adhering more strongly to their cultural worldviews and prejudices) when confronted with reminders of their mortality, people"s motivations affect prejudice.
