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Mind Map by Raquel Balistreri, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Raquel Balistreri
almost 10 years ago
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influences on prejudice and discrimination
- Social Inequalities -> just-world phenomenon =
the tendency for people to believe that the
world is just and that people therefore get what
they deserve and deserve what they get
- "the good is rewarded and the evil is punished"
- short leap to assume that those who succeed
must be good and those who do not must be
bad
- short leap to assume that those who succeed
must be good and those who do not must be
bad
- "the good is rewarded and the evil is punished"
- us and them: ingroup and outgroup
- dividing the world into "us and them" entails prejudice
and war, but it also provides the benefits of communal
solidarity
- through our social identities we associate
ourselves with certain groups and contrast
ourselves with others
- through our social identities we associate
ourselves with certain groups and contrast
ourselves with others
- dividing the world into "us and them" entails prejudice
and war, but it also provides the benefits of communal
solidarity
- emotional roots
- to boost our own status when
we're down, it helps to have others
to denigrate
- by contrast, those made to feel loved and
supported have become more open to and
accepting of others who differ
- negative emotions nourish prejudice
- the few individuals that lack fear and its associated activity in the brain's
emotion-processing amygdala also display a notable lack of racial stereotypes and
prejudice
- to boost our own status when
we're down, it helps to have others
to denigrate
- cognitive roots - stereotyped beliefs are a
by-product of how we cognitively simplify the
world
- in categorizing people into groups, we often stereotype them
- we recognize how greatly we differ from others in our
OWN groups, but we overestimate the homogeneity of
other groups
- our greater recognition for individual own-face-races-- called the
other-race effect-- emerges during infancy, between 3 to 9 months
of age
- with effort and experience, people get
better at recognizing individual faces from
another group
- with effort and experience, people get
better at recognizing individual faces from
another group
- our greater recognition for individual own-face-races-- called the
other-race effect-- emerges during infancy, between 3 to 9 months
of age
- to those in one ethnic group, members of
another often seem more alike than they really
are in attitudes, personality, and appearence
- we recognize how greatly we differ from others in our
OWN groups, but we overestimate the homogeneity of
other groups
- we often judge the frequency of events by instances that readily come to mind
- vivid (violent) cases are more readily available to our
memory and feed our stereotypes
- vivid (violent) cases are more readily available to our
memory and feed our stereotypes
- believing the world is just
- "they should have known better" (blaming the victim also
serves to reassure people that it couldn't happen to them)
- Hindsight Bias
- Hindsight Bias
- "they should have known better" (blaming the victim also
serves to reassure people that it couldn't happen to them)
- people have the tendency to justify their culture's social systems
- we are inclined to see the way things
are as they way they ought to be
- this natural conservatism makes it difficult to legislate
major social changes, such as health care or
climate-change policies. Once such policies are in place,
our "system justification" tends to preserve them
- this natural conservatism makes it difficult to legislate
major social changes, such as health care or
climate-change policies. Once such policies are in place,
our "system justification" tends to preserve them
- we are inclined to see the way things
are as they way they ought to be
- in categorizing people into groups, we often stereotype them
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