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prejudice   negative emotional response or dislike based on group membership (affective component)  
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discrimination   differential treatment based on group membership (behavioral component)  
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stereotyping   beliefs about what members of a social group like (cognitive component)  
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risk averse   people tend to weigh possible losses more heavily than equivalent potential gains  
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gender stereotypes   beliefs concerning the characteristics of women & men  
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glass ceiling   final barrier that prevents women as a group from reaching top positions in the workplace  
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glass cliff effect   women gaining admittance to values leadership positions when a crisis has occurred and there is a greater risk of failure  
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tokenism   where only a few members of a previously excluded group are admitted  
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shifting standards   the same evaluation rating being given to different groups are still influences by stereotypes  
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objective scales   rating where the meaning is the same no matter who they are applied to  
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subjective scales   standards that take on different meaning depending on who they are applied to  
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singlism   the negatives stereotyping & discrimination that is directed toward people who are single  
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subtype   group individuals can be put into when they do not adhere to a stereotype instead of altering it  
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essences   a biological based feature that distinguishes that group from other groups  
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incidental feelings   feelings caused by factors other than the outgroup per se that can generate automatic prejudice  
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causes of prejudice   - threat to self-esteem - competition for resources  
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zero-sum outcomes   if one group gets it the other cannot  
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social identity theory   theory that suggests individuals seek to feel positively about the groups they belong to as part of our self-esteem is derived from these groups  
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identity fusion   the extent to which a person sees the self & their group as overlapping  
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existential threat   threat stemming from anxiety based on our own awareness of mortality  
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modern racism   concealing prejudice from other in public but expressing bigoted attitudes when it is safe to do so  
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bona fide pipeline   a technique that makes use of priming to study implicit or automatically activated racial attitudes  
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collective guilt   an emotional response that people can experience when they perceive their group as responsible for illegitimate wrongdoings  
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moral disengagement   no longer seeing sanctioning as necessary for perpetrating harm  
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social learning view   view that states children acquire negative attitudes toward various social groups because they hear such views expressed by significant others & are rewarded for adopting these views  
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contact hypothesis   racial prejudice being reduced by increased degree of contact between different groups  
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recategorizations   shifts in the boundary between us and them  
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common ingroup identity model   to the extent that individuals who belong to different social groups come to view themselves as members of a single social entity, their attitudes toward each other become more positive  
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white identity management   actively tuning their cognitions concerning whiteness in ways that immunize the self from threat (3Ds)  
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the invisibility thesis   thesis that states that whiteness is important because its invisible  
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procedural color-blindness   color-blindness that implies a lack of race-conscious decision making  
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distributive color-blindness   color-blindness that implies equalizing different racial groups outcomes  
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3 consequences of ingroup identification   - self-ingroup merging (extent to which group & individuals memory are linked) - ingroup over exclusion (desire to maintain a pure ingroup) - accuracy motivation (desire to determine outgroup & ingroup)  
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meritocratic threat   threat to idea that success was due to merit & not because of position (i.e white identity), occurs when individuals worry they are failing to live up to culturally sacrosanct achievement values  
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group-image threat   occurs when individuals acknowledge membership in a historically oppressive group that reaps undeserved benefits from the social order  
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deny   made for combating meritocratic threat  
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distance   distancing their own self-concepts from the offending social identity  
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dismantle   to embrace policies and behaviors aimed at reducing ingroup privilege  
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the contact hypothesis   intergroup bias substantially reduces via intergroup encounters that, among other things, give rise to a sense of common identity shared by members of both groups  
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benevolent sexism   the belief that women are wonderful, pure, whose live is required to make a man whole  
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Stereotypic (in)accuracy   overestimating stereotypic attributes (English are polite), underestimating counter stereotypic attributes (English are rude)  
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Valence (in)accuracy   misestimating the overall positivity/negativity of the group  
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Dispersion (in)accuracy   misestimating homogeneity  
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Illusory correlation   Small groups are to a greater extent associated with negative events  
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