PSYC 170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Ingroups And Outgroups, Aversive Racism, Illusory Correlation
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Racial profiling isn"t an effective way to stop crime but behavioral profiling is. Madeline heilman: if two candidates are equally qualified, man gets job more than woman, if women is more qualified than a man, she will be less liked, no sex difference among perceivers. Both men and women show these biases. When we look at people from other groups, we tend to stereotype: project implicit . No formal cites needed, but don"t plagiarize. Prejudice: attitude and emotional component of attitude: attitude: emotion, belief, action. Affective (prejudice: symbolic racism, ambivalent racism, modern racism, aversive racism. Difficult to measure explicit prejudice today, but people will try to suppress prejudice unless you give them a justification to be prejudice: when it"s not ok to be prejudice, they won"t be. Ambiguity when job candidates" behavior/qualifications are mixed (strong and moderate) White candidate favored over black: remained consistent over white interviewers over time.
