Prejudice & Stereotyping contd

Ambivalent Sexism

Mix of hostile (ex. women try to gain control over men) and benevolent sexism (women should be protected)

Benevolent sexism

Superficially positive but leads to same net effect on discrimination

ABCS of Bias

Affect (Prejudice)

Behavioral (Discrimination)

Cognitive (Stereotyping)

Classic Types of Stigma

Abominations of Body (ex. physical deformities)

Blemishes of Character (ex. addiction)

Tribal Stigma (ex. race)

Functions of Stigma (which paper is this?)

Exploitation/domination (keep people down)

Enforcement of social norms (keep people in)

Avoidance of disease (keep people away)

Phelan

Illusory Correlations

Erroneous linking distinctive group w distinctive trait/behavior, firmly believed

Subtyping

Creating narrower category with different stereotypes, while maintaining stereotypes from broader category, part of stereotype maintenance

Cues that drive categorization

Protoypicality (aspects of stimuli), Individual biases (aspects of the perceiver), context (aspects of the situation)

Self-verification

people want others to see them as they see themselves (even if negative)

Self-enhancement 

people wanting to see themselves positively and want others to see them positively

Feature-based stereotyping

features affect stereotype activation, LESS able to correct feature-based stereotyping

Progress narratives

White Americans tend to perceive greater progress towards racial equality has been made compared w minority group perceptions, explained by use of dif reference points (White Americans use past as reference, minority groups use ideal standards as reference point)

Collective guilt: What are the antecedents (ingredients) for collective guilt

perceive self as part of ingroup

ingroup must endorse event occurred, individual must believe group was responsible

group perceives acts as illegitimate