PSY 230 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Gender Role, Stereotype, Social Influence
5 Nov 2016
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Chapter 6: causes and cures, of stereotyping, prejudice and. 6. 1 how members of different groups perceive inequality. White people generally perceive there to have been more racial progress in the past few decades than. This perception may be a result of people being risk averse, meaning that we weigh possible losses more heavily than potential gains. As a result, we respond more negatively to changes that are framed as potential losses than positively to changes that are framed as potential gains. White people see more racial progress because they have lost some of their privilege in the push towards equality over the past few decades. This principle causes people (especially whites) to see race relations/equality as a (cid:862)ze(cid:396)o-su(cid:373) ga(cid:373)e(cid:863), where whatever is lost by one side, is gained by another. Whites tend to oppose affirmative action poli(cid:272)(cid:455) (cid:449)he(cid:374) it(cid:859)s f(cid:396)a(cid:373)ed as (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g that (cid:449)ill (cid:374)egati(cid:448)el(cid:455) affe(cid:272)t (cid:449)hite a(cid:373)e(cid:396)i(cid:272)a(cid:374)s(cid:859) (cid:272)ha(cid:374)(cid:272)es to get hired or promoted.
