Ch 9: Prejudice Part 3: March 26, 2014

Stereotype Threat (cont.) - How does stereotype threat affect performance? How is it studied? How is stereotype threat manipulated? What about positive stereotypes? – Results: – How can you protect against stereotype threat?

What causes prejudice? Motivational, Cognitive, & Social factors… – 1) Motivational Factors: A) Realistic Conflict – B) Social Identity theory – C) Intergroup conflict – – Sherif’s ‘Robber’s Cave’ experiment – – What solution reduced the prejudice?

What causes prejudice? (cont.) 2) Cognitive factors – – Outgroup homogeneity effect: Why does it happen? – Lack of familiarity w/outgroup – Don’t interact w/representative sample

– Example of ingroup/outgroup distinctions: “Blue-eyed/Brown-eyed exercise” by Jane Elliott Background of the exercise: – Day 1 vs. Day 2 Effects for the group ‘on the bottom’? – Elliott’s main point? – Criticisms of Elliott’s exercise:

What causes prejudice? (cont.) 3) Social sources - – Importance of socialization by parents, peers, media, etc. – Gender stereotype examples Correlation between parents’ stereotypes & kids’ Links to parenting behaviors & kids’ play behaviors

Media effects – – Images may indicate how men/women should look – Research evidence of ‘face-ism’ What is this effect? Archer’s research on face-ism – Gender differences - – Perceptions of the target?