Psychology › Section L · Social psychology › Topic L.5
Prejudice and discrimination
Prejudice is not only open hatred: it includes quick assumptions, biased expectations and rules that quietly disadvantage some groups. This topic separates beliefs, feelings and actions, asks where prejudice comes from, and looks at what actually reduces it.
In this topic
- Stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination
- Forms of prejudice
- Explicit and implicit attitudes
- Why prejudice forms
- How stereotypes confirm themselves
- Stereotype threat and its replication debate
- Reducing prejudice
- Worked example: separating the three
- Worked example: weighing a stereotype threat claim
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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