What is Prejudice? :
What is Prejudice? Prejudice - a negative attitude towards an out-group
Explicit - conscious/aware of your attitude
Implicit - unconscious/specific to a group of people
- Prejudice dehumanizes people who identifiably differ in attributes from one’s in-group
- Ultimately, a person is prejudice as a result of social learning. Conscious effort combined with change of environment will be successful in reducing prejudice behavior
Kramer Video :
Kramer Video Example of Old-Fashioned Racism:
Blatant beliefs about racial superiority
Whites being superior in this case
Social Dominance Theory:
Believes that the whites (in-group) are higher in status than blacks (out-group)
Explicit actions are justified because of this theory
http://www.tmz.com/2006/11/20/kramers-racist-tirade-caught-on-tape
Method to Reduce Prejudice :
Method to Reduce Prejudice Contact Hypothesis: Four conditions that reduce inter-group conflict through contact between groups.
1. Equal Social Status –
No person or race should be favored over the other.
2. Sustained Close Contact –
Everyone from the group engage in one-on-one contact
Increase likability
3. Inter-group Cooperation –
All people should work together to achieve a common goal
Super-ordinate goal
4. Social Norms Favoring Equality –
Authority figure should enforce the equality
People should favor racial equality
Public Self-Awareness can make you withhold the explicit prejudice
Our Video :
Our Video
Why Would Eugene Win? :
Why Would Eugene Win? Inter-Observer Bias-
Pre-conceived notions that affect the judgment of the participant and/or observer
Categorize all “blacks” as dominant athletes
Cognitive Miser Theory-
Observers use no cognitive effort to come to a rational conclusion
They use cognitive heuristics based on their pre-conceived biases
Availability Heuristics-
Tendency to judge the probability of an event by recalling examples of a similar event
E.G- Watching the NBA can falsely lead one to assume that all black people are better at basketball than all white people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYlpBQ5hd6w&feature=related
More Methods to Reduce Prejudice :
More Methods to Reduce Prejudice Monitoring-
Using conscious effort to make a more rational judgment
Avoid stereotyping, subtypes, subcategorizing
Self-awareness-
This increases the ability to use more cognitive effort
Self-regulation-
This can reduce or withhold the specific prejudice