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Walter Lippman and Stereotypes
- Says that our beliefs and actions
aren't based on direct or definite
facts, but pictures we created in our
heads given to us by society.
- What distorts the "pictures in our head?"
- Limitations in time and energy
- Restricted access to information
- Personal and media bias
- Look first and define second
- Limitations in time and energy
- Whatever believe to be the true "picture," we treat it as if it
were the environment itself
- NOT merely a neutral simplification! Projection to the
world of our own sense of values, positions and rights.
- The way we see things is a combination of what is there and
what we expect to find. It is harder to see facts that do not
support our views
- SELECTIVE EXPOSURE!!
- When we make arguments, we are likely to
pick factors that support our argument
- When we make arguments, we are likely to
pick factors that support our argument
- SELECTIVE EXPOSURE!!
- What distorts the "pictures in our head?"
- Believes real world is too complex and vast so we
reconstruct the world to be as simple as possible
- "A fixed, commonly held notion or image of a person or group based on
an oversimplication of some observed or imagined trait of behavior or
appearance."
- Shaped by broader culture
- Shaped by broader culture
- When we recognize stereotypes and
notice we our ideas started, where they
came from, and why we accepted them,
we are more open to individual distinct
reality
- Getting into the habit of recognizing your opinions as partial
experience seen through stereotypes
- Getting into the habit of recognizing your opinions as partial
experience seen through stereotypes
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