1. Prejudice and Discrimination
Prejudice: a negative attitude directed toward people because they are members of a specific social group.
Discrimination: a negative action toward members of a specific social group.

2. So you don’t have any preconceived notions?
Level of education?
Music preferences?
Hobbies?
Name?
Occupation?
Can he babysit your child?

3. What is your level of comfort?
Could you fall in love with a member of a different race?
How would your friends react if you married a member of a different race?
You receive a blood transfusion from a person of a different race.
Does it make you uneasy to see a biracial couple?

4. Stereotyping and Prejudice
Outgroup Homogeneity: members of the outgroup are more similar than members of the ingroup. “All Asians look alike.”
Negative feelings AND Stereotyping are essential components, but not the ONLYcomponents

5. Illusory Correlation
The belief that two variables are associated wit one another when, in fact, there is little or no actual association.
…a lot like the availability heuristic
Shared distinctiveness

6. Subcategories
What groups did you have in high school? Could you change your perceptions of those people?

7. Social Causes Unequal Power and Oppression
Intergroup Competition (Vincent Chin)
realistic group conflict theory
hostility and ethnocentrism
Robber’s Cave
Social Identity
Authoritarian Personality
Religion

8. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

9. Authoritarian Personality
Adorno: submissiveness to authority, rigid adherence to conventional values, and prejudice towards outgroups.
F Scale: Short for Fascism
Psychological History: severely disciplined as children, learned society was competitive and hierarchical

10. Religious Beliefs
Correlation of organized religion and increased prejudice and bigotry.
Need to examine reasons for religiousity
Intrinsic
extrinsic

11. Blatant, aka Old Fashioned Racism
Modern Racism is more subtle and complex. Hatred not as apparent, but more discomfort, uneasiness, and fear

12. Sexism and Heterosexism

13. Combatting Prejudice
Robin Fox: Stereotyping is inevitable due to biological makeup
Patricia Devine: Stereotyping can be monitored
Contact Hypothesis
Equal status
Close contact over time
Intergroup cooperation
Social norms