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Title: Prejudice and Stereotyping


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Prejudice and Stereotyping
  • Some definitions
  • What is prejudice?
  • What is a stereotype?
  • What is discrimination?
  • What are racism and sexism?

2
Why do we engage in stereotyping and prejudice?
  • Personality explanations
  • The authoritarian personality
  • Motivational explanations
  • Frustration-aggression theory
  • The just-world hypothesis

3
Why do we engage in stereotyping and prejudice?
  • Cognitive explanations
  • Perceptual confirmation
  • Behavioural confirmation
  • Subtyping and misattribution
  • Bringing the explanations together
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