Prejudice and Intergroup Relations - The cognitive approach to prejudice
3 important questions on Prejudice and Intergroup Relations - The cognitive approach to prejudice
What is the name of the effect of the judgemental tendency to overestimate similarities within a category and to overestimate differences between categories when the dimension on which the categories are based is continuous?
EX: racial categorization 'European vs
African people'
Continuous dimension on which the categorization is continuously based = skin color
But the skin color of the darkest European can be darker than the skin color of the lightest African, showing that the similarities in a category and differences between categories can be overestimated
Accentuation effect
What is the name of the tendency to perceive the outgroup as more homogeneous (=of the same kind) than the ingroup - which is part of one cognitive approach to stereotyping and prejudice that focuses on perceptions of group variability?
Outgroup homogeneity effect
What is the name of the effect of the tendency to perceive a relationship that does not actually exist, or to perceive it to be stronger than it is - to associate one group more with a stereotypic or evaluative dimension than another?
Illusory correlation effect
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