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| beliefs that certain attributes are characteristic of member of particular groups |
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| negative attitudes or affective responses toward a certain group and its individual members |
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| unfair treatment of members of a particular group based on their membership in that group |
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| Modern racism (symbolic racism) |
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| Prejudice directed at other racial groups that exists alongside rejection of explicitly racist beliefs |
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| Implicit Association Test (IAT) |
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| a technique for revealing non conscious prejudices toward particular groups |
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| a procedure used to increase the a accessibility of a concept or schema ( for example, a stereotype) |
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| realistic group conflict theory |
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| a theory that group conflict, prejudice, and discrimination are likely to arise over competition between groups for limited resources |
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| glorifying one's own group while vilifying other group |
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| goals that transcend the interests of one individual and that can be achieved more readily by two or more groups working together. |
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| experimental design in which researchers create groups based on arbitrary and seemingly meaningless criteria and then examine how the members of these minimal groups are inclined to behave towards one another |
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| theory that a person's self-concept and self-esteem not only derive from personal identity and accomplishments, but from the status and accomplishments of the various groups to which the person belongs |
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| basking in reflected glory |
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| tendency to take pride in the accomplishments of those with whom we are in some way associated (even if weakly), as when fans identify with a winning team |
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| frustration-aggression theory |
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| theory that frustration leads to aggression |
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| outgroup homogenity effect |
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| tendency to assume that within-group similarity is much stronger for out-groups than for in-groups. |
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| acting in a way that tends to produce the very behavior we expected in the first place, as when we act toward members of certain groups in ways that encourage the very behavior we expect from them |
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| an erroneous belief about a connection between events, characteristics, or categories that are not in fact related |
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| pairing of two distinctive events that stand out even more because they co-occur |
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| explaining away exceptions to a given stereotype by creating a subcategory of the stereotyped group that can be expected to differ from the group as a whole |
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| process that occurs outside our awareness, without conscious control |
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| processes that occur with conscious direction and deliberate thought |
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| fear that we will confirm the stereotypes that others have regarding some salient group of which we are a member |
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