Troping on prejudice

Guest Editorial: Qualitative Research on Prejudice

Virtual Prejudice

According to recent theorizing in social psychology, social behavior is controlled not only by reflective, but also by impulsive systems. The latter is based on associative links that may influence behavior without intent. The current study examined how prejudiced implicit associations affect physiological and automatic behavioral responses. Our native Dutch participants were immersed in a virt...

Social influence effects on automatic racial prejudice.

Although most research on the control of automatic prejudice has focused on the efficacy of deliberate attempts to suppress or correct for stereotyping, the reported experiments tested the hypothesis that automatic racial prejudice is subject to common social influence. In experiments involving actual interethnic contact, both tacit and expressed social influence reduced the expression of autom...

On implicit racial prejudice against infants

Because of the innocence and dependence of children, it would be reassuring to believe that implicit racial prejudice against out-group children is lower than implicit prejudice against out-group adults. Yet, prior research has not directly tested whether or not adults exhibit less spontaneous prejudice toward child targets than adult targets. Three studies addressed this issue, contrasting adu...

On the Nature of (Generalized) Prejudice

Bergh, R. 2013. Prejudiced Personalities Revisited On the Nature of (Generalized) Prejudice. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Social Sciences 91. 118 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-8810-9. In the media, one type of prejudice is often discussed as isolated from other types of prejudice. For example, after Breivik’s massacr...