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Personal/Group Disrcimination Discrepancy PGDD |
People’s belief that their group, as awhole, is more likely to be discriminated against than they, themselves, are as individuals. |
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stigma consciousness |
people who believe that they live in a stereotyped world and that this affects their interactions with outgroups |
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Stereotype threat |
eg. Blacks are well aware that a negative stereotype exists about their academic abilities. Blacks realize that they can be judged or treated in terms of this negative stereotype and can be fearful of confirming that judgment. If this fear is strong enough and also is personally relevant to the stereotyped group member, it can create a stereotype threat that interferes with academic achievement. This phenomenon can affect a person’s behavioreven though no discriminatory actions actually were directed toward her or him. |
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Psychological disengagement |
a defensive detachment of self-esteem from outcomesin a particular domain, such that feeling of self-worth are not dependent on successesor failures in that domain. That is, when individuals disengage, they produce apsychological separation from themselves and the arena in which they might fail,thereby protecting their self-esteem. When people disidentify with a domain, theydefine or redefine their self-concept to that the domain is no longer an area ofself-identification. |
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Behavioral compensation |
A strategy labeled behavioral compensation has recently receivedattention and concerns how people behave when they expect to be discriminatedagainst. In such situations, people sometimes compensate for potential discriminationby changing their behavior in ways that disconfirm the stereotype |
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gender polarization |
the assumption that gender-associated characteristics are bipolar; that is, people believe that what is masculine isnot feminine and that what is feminine is not masculine. |
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discrimination-affection paradox |
the generally positive view of women and theoverwhelming evidence that gender-based discrimination exists |
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Hostile sexist |
beliefs are derogatory, such as the beliefs that women demand specialprivileges and want to control men through marriage and their sexual wiles. |
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Benevolent sexist |
beliefs are more positive, such as the beliefs that women arenurturing, morally pure, and deserving of adoration. It is both possible and commonfor people to hold both sets of beliefs, even though doing so means holding twocontradictory attitudes toward women at the same time. |
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sexual stigma |
negative regard,inferior status, and relative powerlessness that society collectively accords to any non-heterosexual behavior, identity, relationship, or community |
