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| A belief that associates a whole group of people with a certain trait |
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| Hostile or negative feelings about people based on their membership in a certain group |
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| Behaviour directed against people solely because of their membership in a particular group |
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| The practice of classifying people into in-groups or outgroups based on attributes that the person has in common with the in-group or out-group |
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| Outgroup homogeneity Effect |
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| People's tendency to underestimate the variability of outgroup members compared to the variability of in-group members |
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| Cross ethnic identification bias |
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| the tendency to see outgroup members as looking very similar to one another, and showing greater accuracy for recognizing in-group members than outgroup members |
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| the tendency to evaluate one's in-group more positively than outgroups |
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| social dominance orientation |
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| A personality trait that indicates preference to maintain hierarchy within and between groups |
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| the tendency to overestimate the association between variables that are only or not at all correlated |
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| ultimate attribution error |
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| an error in which people make dispositional attributions for negative behavior and situational attributions for positive behaviour by outgroup members, yet show the reverse attributions for successes and failures for their ingroup members |
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| a model that posits that people within a group are more often compared to others within that group rather than to people in other groups |
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| the tendency to see things in line with one's expectations |
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| the tendency to search for information that supports one's initial view |
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| the fear that one's behaviour may confirm an existing cultural stereotype, which then disrupts one's performance |
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| Rejection-Identification model |
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| a model which proposes that people in disadvantaged groups experience a negative impact on their well being when they perceive prejudice and discrimination against themselves |
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| Preferential treatments of people in stereotyped groups |
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| feelings of hostility towards women based on their threat to men's power |
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| Having positive, but patronizing, views of women |
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| Conscious endorsement of unprejudiced beliefs about a group while at the same time holding unconscious negative attitudes toward the group |
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| The maintenance of prior beliefs by creating separate categories for people who disconfirm these stereotypes |
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| a stereotype that one holds about one's own group |
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| stereotypes about other groups |
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| A person's beliefs about the stereotypes that outgroup members hold about the person's own group |
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