Factors Affecting Prejudice

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How does personality effect prejudice?
Authoritarian personality (Adorno et al)- More likely wot be prejudice and hostile towards minorities, same with Social Dominance Orientation- Someone who believes in social hierarchy
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How does situation effect prejudice?
It is possible that situation can override personality, in mil grams variation experiment 10, people carried out the seedy offices, they are prejudice towards the setting and so obedience levels dropped due to situation
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What did Katz and Braly do to investigate prejudice in culture?
They investigated national stereotypes with college students, the Px's had to match up adjectives with a certain culture (e.g. jews, african americans), they found that the majority showed common trends and stereotypes
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How does being in an individualistic culture effect your prejudice?
They are more likely to have interpersonal prejudice, so be prejudice towards a person instead of a group as a whole
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How does being in a collectivist culture effect your prejudice?
They are more likely to have intergroup prejudice so they are more prejudice to groups of people, prejudice towards out group is more common in collectivist cultures
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How does situation effect prejudice?

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It is possible that situation can override personality, in mil grams variation experiment 10, people carried out the seedy offices, they are prejudice towards the setting and so obedience levels dropped due to situation

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