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prejudice impressions (Changing Minds). Going a little bit deeper, implicit stereotypes exemplify those unconscious judgments bottled in our mind, that are a reflection of our actions. We generally tend to hold implicit biases that favor our own ingroup, though research has shown that we can…

The results from the study concluded that children viewed their gender better than the opposite gender. This can potentially be due to ingroup favoritism (liking your own gender) that occurs during early childhood. The more children are aware of their gender hierarchies, they are more likely to believe their gender is better than the other based on what they perceive in their social world…

performance of people who are stereotyped (stereotype threat). Given this, what interventions would be effective to prevent the effects of prejudice? How would this differ for prejudice that is perceived, whether or not it is "real"?  The Common Ingroup Identity Model is an intervention approach that harnesses social categorization to reduce intergroup bias where members of different groups are induced to think of themselves as single superordinate in-group rather than as two separate groups.…

Why Did I Get Married? Crismabelle Garcia Ivy Tech Community College PSYC 253 Dawn Harvey  Why Did I Get Married is a movie about four couples, who are also best friends and each year they go on a retreat/vacation to work out their issues and ask the question “Why did I get married?”. This time they go to a nice house in the mountains of Colorado for a week-long and even though they all agreed to come to this trip, some of them are not all the way there emotionally and all four…

Identity Theory” have taken place. Social Identity Theory is a theory based on group membership as well as intergroup interactions that are based on self-categorisation, social comparison and the structure of a shared self-definition in terms of ingroup-defining properties (Vaughan & Hogg,…

identified as the popular clique represent participants of a groupthink mentality. This is exemplified in their eagerness to coordinate with the group’s behavior and attitude, as well as their need to differentiate between their group’s popularity (the ingroup) and other groups’ (the outgroups). Also, it is further illustrated by the members’ need to maintain consensus even when they have internal disagreements with the group’s point of view and course of action. Furthermore, although I believe…

The topic of immigration has been an important issue that is contently being discussed in American culture today. Immigration is one of the important social issues throughout modern history. The causes of immigration have occurred during among the rich nation states in today’s time (e.g., Europe and USA) and result in changing employment opportunities, population increases, and the actions of the states themselves to become involved (Stephan et al., 2005). The issue of immigration causes many…

Based on Hogg (2001), “If you like someone you are more likely to agree with them and comply with requests, suggestions and order.” (p189) People tend to look at the physical appearance of other people as a basis of whether they are going to follow them or not. Nowadays, physical appearance have an impact on people’s decision making. According to Desrumaux, De Bosscher and Leoni (2009), “Attractive people are percieved as having more socially desirable features (Dion et al.) in addition to…

Are individual's stereotypes about other people’s music preferences accurate? Word Count: The topic of research is about prejudice. Prejudice can be defined as “the ‘prejudging’ of someone or something, without having direct evidence to support that judgement” (Williamson, Cardwell & Flanagan, 2007 p145). It is important to understand prejudice as it means that strategies can be developed to reduce prejudiced beliefs such as stereotypes and behaviours such as discrimination. The research will…

Mummendey et al. (2001) defined patriotism as an affective attachment towards the in-group, such as the senses of belongingness, responsibility and pride while Dekker et al (2003) defines nationalism as feeling a sense of belonging towards their own nation, and desiring to establish and maintain a separate and independent state for their own nation. The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for its achievement whereas the nationalists are proud…