Social psychology module 22: the influence range of prejudice

Enter the fourth part of the book, social relations, mainly about the social relations of "I", such as prejudice against others, liking others means establishing intimate relations, unconditional altruism and so on.

Prejudice manifests itself in many forms, such as religion, obesity, sexual orientation, age, immigration and so on. People like their own group and don't like other groups.

Prejudice: the prejudice of a group and its individual members against negativity.

Prejudice makes attitude. It is a unique combination of emotion, behavior tendency and belief.

A prejudiced person may dislike people who are different from himself, behave discriminatorily and think that those people are ignorant and dangerous. Like many attitudes, prejudice is very complicated and may contain some arrogant emotional elements, which plays a role in keeping the other party at a disadvantage.

Negative evaluation is a sign of prejudice, which often comes from negative beliefs called stereotypes. Stereotype is a generalization. In order to simplify the world, we can summarize it as follows: the British are conservative and the Americans are cheerful. This generalization is more or less correct.

Prejudice is a negative attitude, and discrimination is a negative behavior. The root of discrimination often lies in biased attitudes.

Attitude and behavior are usually loosely linked. Prejudice does not necessarily breed hostility. Similarly, not all oppression stems from prejudice. Racial discrimination and gender discrimination are discriminatory acts in the system, even if there is no intention of prejudice.

Subtle and open form of prejudice: prejudice provides the best evidence for our dual attitude system, and we can have completely different explicit (conscious) and implicit (automatic) attitudes towards the same goal at the same time. Through education, the explicit attitude will change obviously, but the implicit attitude will persist.

Introduce racial discrimination and gender discrimination:

There are two special views worth recording: parents who have given birth to boys are more proud when announcing the sex of their babies than parents who have given birth to girls; On the contrary, parents who gave birth to girls were happier when they announced the sex of their children than those who gave birth to boys. This seems to show that when parents announce their gender, they describe boys from the perspective of identity and girls from the perspective of relationship.

The biggest prejudice against women is prenatal speaking. People all over the world tend to have boys.

Most people prefer women to men. They think that women are more considerate, kind and helpful, and call this favorable stereotype "female excellence effect".

People's attitudes towards women and race have changed rapidly. In just 10 years, it has developed rapidly. It may have been quarantined before 10, but it's nonsense to mention it after 10.