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1 online resource (263 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Endorsement; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 What are stereotypes?; Introduction; The dictionary definition of a stereotype; Some textbook definitions of a stereotype; The cultural context of the research into stereotypes; Race and stereotypes in the United States; Gender and stereotypes in the United States; Sociocultural aspect of stereotypes; Commonly held beliefs about stereotypes; Commonly held beliefs about stereotypes -- which may be misleading; The problem of the definition of a stereotype |
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Alternative definitions of stereotypesStereotypes as a construction of researchers; So what are stereotypes?; 1. Who is being stereotyped?; Stereotypes are about a social group (and its members); 2. What is the stereotype?; Stereotypes are about the attributes associated with the members of a social group; 3. Who is doing the stereotyping?; Stereotypes are held by a social group about a social group; The rest of the book; Notes; 2 The invention of the stereotype; Pictures in the head; Economy of effort; Defence; Blind spots; The experimental study of stereotypes: the Princeton trilogy |
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The replicationsThe impact of the Princeton trilogy; Stereotypes as overgeneralizations; The prejudiced person; The tolerant person; The classical model of stereotypes and stereotype users; Implications of the classical model of stereotypes; The wearers of the black hats and the white hats; The problems of the classical model of stereotypes; Finding or constructing stereotypes?; Stereotypes as irrational or cultural thinking?; Stereotype users as prejudiced and simplistic thinkers?; Stereotypes or group traits?; The persistence of the classical model of stereotypes in popular culture; Notes |
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3 Stereotypes in mindStereotypes and 'ordinary' cognition; Perception and social perception: categorization and generalization; The human mind in academic (cognitive) psychology; The organization of knowledge in the mind; Human judgement: heuristic rather than logical or statistical decision-making; Tools in the cognitive toolbox: heuristics make us smart; The predictive brain; The automatic activation of cultural stereotypes; The problem of implicit stereotypical associations in American culture; The implicit association test and unconscious 'bias' |
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Replacing 'biased' people with 'fair' artificial intelligence systemsTraining to remove unconscious 'bias'; The risk of psychologizing culture; Notes; 4 Stereotypes, prejudice and social groups; Prejudice and discrimination; Attitudes, stereotypes and prejudice; Attitudes and behaviour; Explicit and implicit attitudes; Implicit prejudice; Unwitting racism: the police investigation of the murder of Stephen Lawrence; Implicit prejudice: 'bad apples' and 'rotten barrels'; Implicit prejudice and the problem of intention; Social attitudes: the person and the group |
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Social groups and social identity |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
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Stereotypes (Social psychology)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351794312 |
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1351794310 |
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9781351794305 |
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1351794302 |
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9781351794299 |
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1351794299 |
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9781315205533 |
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131520553X |
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