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?

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Why do we engage in stereotyping and prejudice?

• Personality explanations
• The authoritarian personality
• Motivational explanations
• Frustration-aggression theory
• The just-world hypothesis

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Why do we engage in stereotyping and prejudice?

• Cognitive explanations
• Perceptual confirmation
• Behavioural confirmation
• Subtyping and misattribution
• Bringing the explanations together