PSY2001 S2 W3 Reducing Prejudice & Discimmination Flashcards

Question

What is an issue with imagined contact?

Answer 1

replication (difficult?)

Answer 2

Klein sought to replicate husnu & crisp and found a significant but small average effect of imagined contact on reducing prejudice across the samples. Conclusion: contact effects do not replicate BUT: the effect size was small in the study and replication which still means there's an effect

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We shouldn’t see people in terms of the colour of their skin- we should see people as individuals and look beyond group differences “An approach to managing diversity in which intergroup distinctions and considerations are deemphasized” (Apfelbaum et al., 2010)

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No, you can't ignore the colour of your skin makes a difference.

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if we ignore intergroup distinctions, we ignore actual intercrop disparities and differences in experience and we may be less likely to recognise intergroup disparities and discrimination s

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Method: children were given a digital storybook on equality where teacher took one of the following appraoches: colour blind approach and value diversity approach. They were given scenarios that varied in the degree to which they described racially biased behaviour (no bais, ambiguous bias and explicit bias). The children then reported which if any of the scenario showed racial discrimination Results: children were elss likely to perceive discrimination in the colourblind story condition relevative to the value diversit story conditions.

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Factual education to increase knowledge about different groups. Consciousness raising. Perspective taking

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teach kids about discriminations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLAi78hluFc

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Study 1 Method: White American elementary school children were exposed to history lession either Racism condition (explicit information about racism experienced by well-known African American), control conditions (identical lesson that omitted the information about raciosm) Measure attitudes towards African Americans Results: PPT who received history lessons talking about racism had significantly more positive and less negative attitudes towards African Americans than participants who received control lessons

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Mental Health Stigma: Meta-Analysis (Corrigan, 2012) found that educational interventions were successful at reducing mental health stigma. Prejudice and discrimination more broadly (Paluck, 2020) finds a small but significant multicultural anti-bias and moral education interventions no reducing prejudice.

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Directly confronting prejudice or discriminatory behaviour in tohers. Confrontation can be enacted by the target of prejudice or by an ally.

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Wood et al. (meta-analysis) demonstrates that confronting prejudice significantly reduces intercrop bias, particularly reducing use of stereotypes and increasing intentions to control intercrop bias in the future

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Metohd: white participant completed a task with white confederate which required them to take turns making inference about sentence paired with photo of white an black people. Critical trials: paired pictures of black men with sentences that could hae both stereotypical or nonstereotypical interpretation Feedback tasks: PTT randomly allocated to received a specific feedback: confrontation of prejudice, other confrontation control and no confrontatio ncontrol PTT Attitude scale

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Participants confronted about use of stereotypes reported a greater reduction in prejudiced attitudes (i.e. a higher change score) than participants in the other confrontation and no confrontation control conditions

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Method: W PPT interpreted sentences parried with piture of W or B people. Critical trials: parried picture of B men with stereotypical or non-steroetypical interpretations. 1/2 PPT who responded stereotypically, were confronted by the experimenter: “I thought some of your answers seemed a little offensive. The Black guy behind bars could be a bartender. People shouldn’t use stereotypes, you know?” 1 week later: completed similar task but with Latino men in addition Results: W PPT confronted used fewer B stereotypes and fewer negative Latino stereotypes that W PPT that were nto confronted

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Most of these techniques we covered in the lecture are effective (to varying degrees) with the exception of approaches based on colourblind ideologies, which may do more harm than good

Answer 17

One thing that you can do to reduce prejudice and discrimination is to confront it when you observe it (particularly as an ally), as there is a building body of research suggesting that prejudice confrontation/bystander anti-prejudice is effective at reducing prejudice in those confronted.