ENG ELC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Descriptive Knowledge, Pilot Experiment, Asian Americans
27 Oct 2020
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Task 2 not just stereotyping anymore: racial essentialism reduces. 1) how to promote interracial or interethnic understanding. 2) how to increase creativity in workforce. Even though 1 & 2 seem unrelated argue that racial-ethnic stereotyping and creative stagnation share common mechanism: normative human tendency to rely on stringent categorization processes. Stereotyping: strict adherence to commonly held beliefs about social groups when judging individual members of those groups. Creative stagnation: rigid activation of typical category attributes when solving particular problem. Two concepts concern two different outcomes but both occur when people fixate on existing category info & conventional mind-sets. Prediction: factors increasing tendency for categorical thinking in social domain may increase stereotyping and stifle creativity. Current research: tested prediction by focusing on racial essentialism suggesting that functional utility derived from categorical mind-sets induces habitual closed-mindedness that transcends social domain and hampers creativity.
