Chapter 13

Key Terms

Authoritarian personality: a type of personality consisting of intolerance of ambiguity, hostility towards other groups, rigid beliefs, and submissiveness towards authority figures.

Discrimination: negative actions or behaviour directed towards the members of some other group.

Ingroup bias: the tendency to view one’s own group more favourably than other groups.

Prejudice: attitudes and feelings (typically negative) about the members of some group solely on the basis of their membership of that group.

Recategorisation: merging the ingroup and outgroup to form a single large ingroup; it is designed to reduce prejudice.

Salient categorisation: the notion that someone needs to be regarded as typical or representative of a group if positive encounters with that individual are to lead to reduced prejudice towards the entire group.

Stereotype: an oversimplified generalisation (typically negative) concerning some group (e.g., the English; the Welsh).

Weblinks

Race and stereotypes in the 2000s: A video about stereotypes and how they have been used to demonise minorities in Britain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9pvE6iF2eM

“A Girl Like Me”: A video about young African-American women struggling to define themselves
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWyI77Yh1Gg

Stereotyping Muslims: A mini-documentary on how Muslims are misperceived by the West
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogjm0DC-xAQ

The authoritarian personality test
http:// www.anesi.com/fscale.htm

The Implicit Association Test
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/

The “Understanding Prejudice” website: Links to exercises and demonstrations
http://www.understandingprejudice.org/demos/

Detail on Sherif’s Robbers Cave experiment
http://explorable.com/robbers-cave-experiment.html

A biography of Muzafer Sherif
http://www.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/sherif.htm

Summary of Robbers Cave experiment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPk-BYAA12A

An episode of the BBC Radio 4 “Mind Changers” programme on Henri Tajfel’s life and work
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00yw6km

Beyond Prejudice: A site summarising thoughts and beliefs concerning understanding prejudice and how to reduce prejudiced behaviour
http://www.beyondprejudice.com/under_stand.html

A BPS article on the effects of contact on reducing prejudice
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.co.uk/2007/09/2-x-3-x-3-x-2-x-2-x-3-x-2-x-3experiment.html

A Psychology Today article on the contact hypothesis
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/without-prejudice/201210/can-contact-other-groups-reduce-prejudice

Another BPS article: Using a little imagination to help beat racism
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/using-little-imagination-to-help-beat.html

Link to article on recategorisation: The Common Ingroup Identity Model Recategorisation and the Reduction of Intergroup Bias
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/240237681_The_Common_Ingroup_Identity_Model_Recategorization_and_the_Reduction_of_Intergroup_Bias