prejudice

Examples of prejudice in the following topics:

• Prejudice

  • Prejudice is a baseless and usually negative attitude toward members of a group.
  • Although prejudice may lead to discrimination, the two are separate concepts.
  • Negative prejudice is rarely seen in response to one's own group, or ingroup.
  • In a meta-analysis of 515 studies on prejudice, three important mediating factors were found to reduce prejudice.
  • Elements of prejudice can often be seen in propaganda.

• How Culture and Society Impact the Elderly

  • According to Cox, Abramson, Devine, and Hollon (2012), old age is a risk factor for depression caused by such prejudice.
  • When people are prejudiced against the elderly and then become old themselves, their anti-elderly prejudice turns inward, causing depression.

• Psychology and the Scientific Method

  • Critical thinking also helps to identify prejudices (as well as eliminate or minimize them), and it helps people to see and change any bias they may have about a particular concept.
  • Because of this, critical thinking and the use of the scientific method is especially important in psychology because it helps to minimize prejudice, bias, and other cognitive errors that often come with the examination of such subjective concepts.

• Cultural Psychology

  • These include forces such as attitudes, child-rearing practices, discrimination and prejudice, ethnic and racial identity, gender roles and norms, family and kinship structures, power dynamics, regional differences, religious beliefs and practices, rituals, and taboos.

• Social Psychology

  • After the war, researchers became interested in a variety of social problems including gender issues, racial prejudice, cognitive dissonance, bystander intervention, aggression, and obedience to authority.

• Cultural Influences on Perception

  • Bias, or showing an unfair inclination for or prejudice against something, also influences our perception in both positive and negative ways.

• Introduction to Social Psychology and Social Perception

• Discrimination Based on Sex and Gender

  • Sexism or gender discrimination is prejudice or discrimination based on a person's sex or gender.

• Sexual Orientation

  • It can be expressed as antipathy, contempt, prejudice, aversion, or hatred; it may be based on irrational fear and is sometimes related to religious beliefs.

• Considerations for Eyewitness Testimony

  • Perception may affect the immediate encoding of these unreliable notions due to prejudices, which can influence the speed of processing and classification of racially ambiguous targets.