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| a generalized attitude toward members of a social group |
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| generalized belief about members of social groups |
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| behaviors directed toward people on the basis of their group membership |
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| the fear that one might confirm the negative stereotypes held by others about one's group |
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| to reduce in one's mind the relevance of a particular domain (e.g., academic achievement) to one's self-esteem |
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| Minimal Intergroup Paradigm |
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| an experimental procedure in which short-term, arbitrary, artificial groups are created to explore the foundations of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination |
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| the tendency to benefit members of one's own groups over members of other groups |
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| Realistic Group Conflict Theory |
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| the proposal that intergroup conflict, and negative prejudices and stereotypes, emerge out of actual competition between groups for desired resources |
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| Social Dominance Orientation |
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| the extent to which a person desires that his or her own group dominate other groups and be socially and materially superior to them |
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| the process of blaming members of other groups for one's frustrations and failures |
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| the beliefs and feelings we have toward the groups to which we see ourselves belonging |
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| the tendency to submit to those having greater authority and to denigrate those having less authority |
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| the process of categorizing an individual as a member of a particular group and then inferring that he or she possesses the characteristics generally held by members of that group |
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| Perceived Outgroup Homogeneity |
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| the phenomenon of overestimating the extent to which members within other groups are similar to each other |
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