Sozialpsychologie I

The process by which one’s expectations about a person eventually lead that person to behave in ways that confirm those expectations.

The tendency to focus on the role of personal causes and underestimate the impact of situations on other people’s behavior.

Racism that operates unconsciously and unintentionally.

A shared goal that can be achieved only through cooperation among individuals or groups.

The experience of concern about being evaluated based on negative stereotypes about one’s group.

Groups with which an individual feels a sense of membership, belonging, and identity.

A form of prejudice that surfaces in subtle ways when it is safe, socially acceptable, and easy to rationalize.

Negative feelings toward persons based on their membership in certain groups.

Behavior directed against persons because of their membership in a particular group.

A belief or association that links a whole group of people with certain traits or characteristics.

The tendency to assume that there is greater similarity among members of outgroups than among members of ingroups.

Feelings of discontent aroused by the belief that one fares poorly compared with others.

An overestimate of the association between variables that are only slightly or not at all correlated.

The classification of persons into groups on the basis of common attributes.

The theory that hostility between groups is caused by direct competition for limited resources.

A theory that proposes that people are motivated (at least in part) to defend and justify the existing social, political, and economic conditions.

Being persistently stereotyped, perceived as deviant, and devalued in society because of membership in a particular social group or because of a particular characteristic.

Prejudice and discrimination based on a person’s gender, or institutional and cultural practices that promote the domination of one gender over another.

Prejudice and discrimination based on a person’s racial background, or institutional and cultural practices that promote the domination of one racial group over another.

Racism that concerns the ambivalence between fair-minded attitudes and beliefs, on the one hand, and unconscious and unrecognized prejudicial feelings and beliefs, on the other hand.

A form of sexism characterized by attitudes about women that reflect both negative, resentful beliefs and feelings and affectionate and chivalrous but potentially patronizing beliefs and feelings.

A cooperative learning method used to reduce racial prejudice through interaction in group efforts.

A method of presenting stimuli so faintly or rapidly that people do not have any conscious awareness of having been exposed to them.

Groups with which an individual does not feel a sense of membership, belonging, or identity.

The tendency to discriminate in favor of ingroups over outgroups.

A model proposing that the relative status and competition between groups influence group stereotypes along the dimensions of competence and warmth.

A shared goal that can be achieved only through cooperation among individuals or groups.

A desire to see one’s ingroup as dominant over other groups and a willingness to adopt cultural values that facilitate oppression over other groups.

The theory that direct contact between hostile groups will reduce intergroup prejudice under certain conditions.

The theory that small gender differences are magnified in perception by the contrasting social roles occupied by men and women.

The theory that people favor ingroups over outgroups in order to enhance their self-esteem.