Lecture §
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- A scientific perspective
- reliable and valid methods, unbiased daa, replicable
- What is the role of values, of how we think the world should be?
- Values do not affect how we evaluate validity of results
- Values can affect the questions we ask
- Values can affect what we do with scientific knowledge
- Definitions
- Stereotype: a (cognitive) belief about a specific group
- Thinking about exceptions indicate a existing stereotype
- Prejudice: (emotional) feelings about a specific group
- Discrimination: (behaviour) act toward a specific group
- Research on mindsets
- What are the two different mindsets, and how they differ?
- Mindsets: Beliefs about change (personality, intelligence, racial bias)
- Fixed mindset: entity (Reveal a fundamental flaw)
- Growth mindset: incremental (given info on where to improve)
- Ex. Failing an exam means
Fix: “I’m a bad person”Growth: “I didn’t study well this time”
- Interracial interactions
- Can be stressful for involved parties
- Model of stress
- Relevant threat?
- No
-> no stress
- Yes
-> (2)
- Do I have the resources to deal with this threat?
- What are the 4 Provoked behaviours in interracial interactions?
- Overcompensation: engagement under threat, self-focused
- Escape: avoidance, freezing, disengagement, self-focused
- Antagonization: “defeat” that treat, self-focused
- Positive engagement: coping response, gathering info to learn, other-focused
- Can racial bias change?
- NO
-> performance strategies
- Overcompensation: try to be extremely nice, nicer than you would normally be
- Escape: try to end the interaction
- YES
-> learning strategies