Prejudice: Causes and Cures
12 important questions on Prejudice: Causes and Cures
How can you try to eliminate stereotype-mindsets?
What are the 4 aspects of social life that can cause prejudice?
1. pressures to conform: normative rules (institutional discrimination is very present in today's society, and because we feel pressure to conform, we tend to go along with the reigning prejudices and stereotypes (the norm), etc. Norms change often however, and because of that prejudices too)
2. Social categorisation: us vs. them (leads to in-group bias and out-group homogeneity)
3. How we assign meaning: attributional biases (fundamental attribution error, leads to ultimate attribution error)
4. Economic competition
The justification-suppression model of prejudice
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What is the ultimate attribution error?
What is blaming the victim?
How can we change stereotypical beliefs?
What is making dispositional attributes?
--> makes stereotypes insidious and persistent
How can presenting people with prejudices with the right information lead to strengthened stereotypes?
What is mutual interdependence?
What is a jigsaw classroom?
Which two conditions have to be met to reduce prejudice and raise self-esteem with contact?
- Both groups share a common goal
Key factors in the succes of contact:
- common goal
- equal status
- contact in a friendly, informal setting
- multiple contacts: contact with different people from the out-group
- social norms that promote and support equality among groups are operating in the situation
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