Please read one of the below articles and write a 2 to 3 page thought paper. Make you’re your thought paper addresses the primary questions outlined below, though you should not answer questions one by one. The questions are intended to provide you with an idea of what they content should look like. Thought papers are due Thursday, March 18th.
What is the distinction between Stereotypes and Personal Beliefs?
How is this distinction important to the interpretation of data and judgments about whether stereotypes have changed?
What are the shortcomings of the Princeton Trilogy Studies?
How do the authors avoid similar problems in their work?
What do the authors find?
What does it mean? Have stereotypes changed?
What are the two critical American values that most Americans endorse?
What kind of racial attitudes is each valued related to?
What implications does this model have? What is Ambivalence and how do people respond when one or the other value is salient?
After they constructed scales to tap racial attitudes (Study 1), how did the authors test their ideas about the relationship between values and prejudice?
What did the authors find? What does it mean?
What are dominative racists?
What are aversive racists? Where do negative attitudes stem from? What is the source of positive attitudes?
How should aversive racists behave in situations with clear norms? Why?
How should they behave in situations without clear norms? Why?
How did Gaertner & Dovidio operationalize prejudice? That is, in their studies what groups are considered to be aversive racists vs. dominative racists? Are there particular strengths or weaknesses to such an operationalization.
Explain what Gaertner and Dovidio found in two different studies, and clearly note how the findings support (or do not support) the predictions of aversive racism theory.