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| authoritarian personality |
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| a personality that is disposed to favor obedience to authority and intolerance of outgroups and those lower in status. |
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| believing in the superiority of one's own ethnic and cultural group, and having a corresponding disdain for all other groups. |
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| social dominance orientation |
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| a motivation to have one's group dominate other social groups. |
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| 1) An individual's prejudicial attitudes and discriminating behavior toward people of a given sex, or (2) institutional practices (even if not motivated by prejudice) that subordinate people of a given sex. |
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| 1) An individual's prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory behavior toward people of a given race, or (2) institutional practices (even if not motivated by prejudice) that subordinate people of a given race. |
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| unjustified negative behavior towards a group or its members. |
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| a belief about the personal attributes of a group of people. Stereotypes are sometimes overgeneralized, inaccurate, and resistant to new information (and sometimes accurate) |
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| a preconceived negative judgment of a group and its individual members. |
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| realistic group conflict theory |
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| the theory that prejudice arises from competition between groups for scarce resources. |
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| The "we" aspect of our self-concept: the part of our answer to the "Who am I?" that comes from our group memberships. |
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| "Us"-- a group of people who share a sense of belonging, a feeling of common identity. |
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| "Them"-- a group that people perceive as distinctly different from or apart from their ingroup. |
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| the tendency to favor one's own group |
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| according to "terror management theory", people's self-protective emotional and cognitive responses (including adhering more strongly to their cultural worldviews and prejudices) when confronted with reminders of their morality. |
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| outgroup homogeneity effect |
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| perception of outgroup members as more similar to one another than are ingroup members. Thus "they are alike, we are diverse." |
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| the tendency for people to more accurately recognize faces of their own race. (also called the cross-race effect or other-race effect) |
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| a person's expectation of being victimized by prejudice or discrimination. |
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| explaining away outgroup members' positive behaviors; also attirbuting negative behaviors to their dispositions (while excusing such behavior by one's own group) |
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| The tendency of people to believe that the world is just and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get. |
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| Accommodating individuals who deviate from one's stereotype by thinking of them as "exceptions to the rule". |
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| Accommodating individuals who deviate from one's stereotype by forming a new stereotype about this subset of the group. |
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| A disruptive concern, when facing a negative stereotype, that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype. Unlike self-fulfilling prophecies that hammer one's reputation into one's self-concept, stereotype threat situations have immediate effects. |
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