| list items | lists |
| - bogus pipeline research
- physiological and implicit cognition measures
- assessments of behavior
- self-report
- day-to-day experience of outgroup members | 5 sources of evidence that prejudice still exists |
| - change in racial attitudes since WWII
- learning prejudiced beliefs through socialization | 2 social processes that lead to the contradiction between people's overall nonprejudice and sometimes prejudiced day-to-day behavior |
| - white belief in white superiority
- belief in rightness of segregation - keeping blacks distant, separate and subordinate as their "place"
- laws + government: segregated education; voter suppression; etc. | 3 components of Jim Crow racism |
| - desegregation of armed forces
- first proposal of voting rights and equal opportunity
- cold war raised comparison of not granting equal rights to all citizens, as in soviet Russia
- Brown vs. Board of Education | 2 events that communicated that prejudice was no longer an acceptable American value |
| - genuine change in direction of belief in principle of equality
- not everyone has accepted this norm to the same degree
- even those who have not yet fully accepted the norm are motivated to act in non-prejudiced ways | 3 propositions of theories on new form of prejudice (cool, distant and indirect) |
| - modern symbolic prejudice
- aversive prejudice
- racial ambivalence | 3 theories of contemporary prejudice |
| - prejudice and discr. no longer exist
- remaining economic differences result from black failure to work
- failure to work invalidates continued black anger
- black people seek special favors
- black people have been getting more than they deserve | 5 themes that justify opposition to social policies that promote intergroup equality while still endorsing equality as an abstract |
| - scores on measures of modern symbolic prejudice correlate with scores on measures of anti-black affect
- trends in historical data show that feelings haven't changed about black people themselves as they changed about racial equality | 2 lines of research that support the role of anti-black affect in modern-symbolic prejudice |
| - equality of opportunity
- equality of outcome | 2 meanings of equality |
| - mild to moderate anti-black emotions
- belief in traditional values
- low outcome based egalitarianism
- group self-interest
- little personal knowledge of black people | 5 factors underlying modern-symbolic prejudice |
| - anxiety and discomfort at interaction; quick disengagement
- stick to rules + codes of behavior when required, some overcompensating
- express neg. feelings in subtle, rational ways that may disadvantage minorities or unfairly benefit majority | 3 behaviors that reflect aversive racism |
| - predisposition to cognitive categorization
- need to control environment, to ensure positive outcomes for self + ingroups
- socialization of dual value systems of racist traditions vs racial fairness, justice and equality | 3 psychological underpinnings for aversive prejudice |
| - avoidance of intergroup contact
- overly positive intergroup behavior when politeness is called for
- pro-white bias in ambiguous situations
- discrimination when the behavior can be justified
- derogation of minorities with high status positions | 5 predictions of behavior due to aversive prejudice |
| - negative stereotypes + experiences leading to expect negative response
- lack of knowledge leading to uncertainty how to behave
- concern over stigma by association | possible sources for the anxiety of aversive racism |
| - individualism - personal responsibility, hard work leading to success, self-reliance, improving one's lot in life
- egalitarianism, humanitarianism, helping the disadvantaged. | 2 sets of values important to ambivalent prejudice |
| - deviant; behave in ways that make it hard to fit in "proper" American society
- disadvantaged; less well off, economically and socially | 2 white beliefs about blacks that are important to ambivalent racism theory |
| - liking
- respect | 2 central concepts people use when evaluating people or groups |
| - threat to self-image because only one value system can be honored
- cognitive dissonance | 2 themes of psychological conflict of ambivalent prejudice |
