PSYC12H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 30: Implicit Stereotype, Thought Suppression, Egalitarianism
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Categorization and socialization processes, persuasive orientations and personality lead toward prejudice belief in personal responsibility and individualism or social hierarchies can assist in justifying and rationalizing intergroup biases. Literature review and framework self-regulation involves exerting conscious control over behavior to achieve a desired outcome. People who hold low- prejudice attitudes or standards for responding to members of stereotyped groups are person- ally motivated to try to respond in egalitarian ways. Study: skinhead study: half of the participants were told to avoid stereotypic thoughts as they wrote their passages. Participants in a control condition were given no special instructions control condition showed greater evidence of stereotyping than passages written in the suppression condition. When participants were asked to write another passage about a skinhead (this time with no suppression instructions), those who had suppressed stereotypes during the first passage-writing task showed evidence of even greater stereotyping.
