PSYC 2120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Coronary Artery Disease, Stereotype Threat, Contact Hypothesis

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2120
• Professor: Ward Struthers

Document Summary

Individual differences in perceiving prejudice: people"s sensitivity to perceiving bias depends on the extent to which they identify their stigmatized group. Stigma consciousness: the expectation of being perceived by others, mainly majority, in terms of one"s group membership: those higher in stigma consciousness are more likely to expect their interactions with others to go poorly. This leads to self-fulfilling prophecies: person-group discrimination discrepancy: people estimate they personally experience less discrimination than is faced by the average member of their group. Motivations to avoid perceptions of prejudice: those fail to see targeted prejudice are motivated to deny that prejudice and discrimination affect their lives. This denial may be part of a generality to be optimistic. Beneficial to assume discrimination is something that happens to other people: people are motivated to sustain faith in society that is right and good; justifying status quo.