Deck 12: Section 2: Prejudice: Interplay of Cognitive and Affective Biases

Question 1

Briefly summarize some of the major findings relating to age discrimination. How are the elderly typically perceived? What are some younger persons' concerns that contribute to these perceptions? What are some ways that ageism is different from other forms of discrimination, such as sexism? Are these patterns consistent across cultures?
a. Typically ambivalent stereotypes, warm but incompetent - across cultures.
b. Differences depending on sub-groups.
c. Difference from other groups = more malleable category, everyone will move through categories throughout life span; more socially acceptable to be prejudiced; implication of mortality.
d. Younger people concerned over resources, succession, consumption, identities.

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Question 2

Antigay prejudice studies have run into some ethical issues. Describe what these issues are and how recent work has attempted to avoid these ethical complexities.

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Question 3

Describe how the biocultural approach differs from the intergroup emotions theory IET), the stereotype content model SCM), and image theory.
a. Biocultural approach: focus on individual reactions to threats to the ingroup, emotional reactions evolutionary adaptations to threat.
b. Intergroup emotions theory IET): group as part of self-representation, emotional reactions based on self-representation, prejudice as specific intergroup emotion from specific appraisal stereotype) that creates specific emotional action tendencies discrimination).
c. Stereotype Content Model SCM).

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Question 4

What are some of the problems resulting from today's racially segregated society in America? What types of changes might help reduce these effects, and what might be preventing these changes from taking place?

Question 5

Describe two different examples of groups toward which people feel unstable intergroup emotions. How does behavior toward these groups differ from behavior toward non-ambivalently stereotyped groups?

Question 6

Briefly summarize some of the major findings relating to gender and leadership. For example, do women or men prefer to hold leadership roles? In what ways are their leadership styles similar, or different? How do people typically respond to male vs. female leaders?
a. Men more often assume leadership in leader-less groups, but women more often emerge as social leaders.
b. Men and women in leadership roles show similar task and interpersonal orientations, but women tend to lead in a more democratic way.
c. Women leaders who act in particularly masculine ways or work in particularly masculine settings receive more negative evaluations.
d. Men and women show similar levels of leadership motivation.