Jaysan Charlesford

Reducing prejudice

Please note, that this Option necessarily includes material that some may find upsetting, offensive, exclusionary, and harmful. You must consider the material within the Joining Instructions section of my DLE area before beginning this Option.

Overview

Hate crime. Political partisanship. Terrorism. Climate change? Prejudice may be the defining issue of the twenty-first century, and is among the most pervasive and robust phenomena in psychology. In this option, we’ll explore prejudice through the lenses of social constructionism and social cognition. We’ll engage the psychological causes of prejudice by adopting an ecological systems perspective, considering how person-level prejudice may be driven by ‘macro’, situational, and individual factors. We will also consider the applied field of prejudice-reduction. Finally, we will identify some interesting future directions in prejudice research.

L1. Prejudice: The Sociopolitical Level

L2. Prejudice: The Individual Level

L3. Prejudice: The Situational Level

L4. Prejudice-Reduction

L5. Future Directions in Prejudice Research

L6. Revision Lecture

Indicative Reading List

Burr (2003). Burr, V. (2015). Social constructionism. Routledge. (Chapter 1 only)

Burr (2015). Social Constructionism. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioural Sciences, 2e.

Duckitt, J., & Sibley, C. G. (2009). A dual-process motivational model of ideology, politics, and prejudice. Psychological Inquiry, 20(2-3), 98-109. Available at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10478400903028540

Pettigrew, T. F. (1998). Intergroup contact theory. Annual Review of Psychology, 49(1), 65-85. Available at: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f3f1/e3d7044f2ca8a6e56a3dc51f556945eb3dd1.pdf

Stephan, W., Ybarra, O., & Bachman, G. (1999). Prejudice towards immigrants. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 29 (11), 2221-2237.