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Prejudice. Parts of prejudice. Prejudice (emotion) Stereotyping (cognition) Discrimination (behavior) Japanese in US during WW2 What led people to act that way?. Prejudice in Korea. What groups are there prejudices toward? Can positive stereotypes be harmful?. Causes of prejudice.
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Parts of prejudice • Prejudice (emotion) • Stereotyping (cognition) • Discrimination (behavior) • Japanese in US during WW2 • What led people to act that way?
Prejudice in Korea • What groups are there prejudices toward? • Can positive stereotypes be harmful?
Causes of prejudice • Personality • Right-wing authoritarianism • http://thisaintnews.com/view/blog/104450/The-Right-Wing-Authoritarianism-Scale • Social dominance orientation • http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3207711/Sidanius_SocialDominanceOrientation.pdf?sequence=1 • Appendix A
Categorization • Blue eyes/brown eyes demonstration • Minimal groups paradigm • In-group bias • Outgroup homogeneity
Categorization • Attributions (just world, etc.) • Priming • Implicit prejudice • Illusory correlation
Motivational approaches • Social identity theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1979)
Norms/Social learning • Old fashioned vs. modern prejudice • Modern/symbolic racism • http://condor.depaul.edu/phenry1/SR2Kinstructions.htm • Aversive/ambivalent racism • Justification-Suppression model (Crandall & Eshleman, 2003)
Ambivalent sexism • http://www.lawrence.edu/fast/glickp/asi.html • Does benevolent sexism hurt women? How? • How do stereotypes hurt men?
Conflict • Realistic conflict theory • Scapegoating • Robber’s cave experiment (Sherif and colleagues, 1961)
Conflict • Integrated threat theory (Stephan & Stephan, 2000)
Some effects of prejudice • Stereotype threat—when your group is stereotyped and you are reminded of that stereotype, you perform according to that stereotype • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGEUVM6QuMg • Self-fulfilling prophesy • Weapons bias
Ways to reduce prejudice • http://www.choosingtoparticipate.org/explore/exhibit/stories/niot/watch • Contact • Depend on each other • Common goal • Equal status • Friendly setting • Exposure to multiple people • Social norms promoting equality
Make people and parents aware • Change categorization • Common ingroup identity model (Gaertner & colleagues) • Build empathy • Laws • http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2010/07/180_61617.html