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TALK: Prejudice is in the Eye of the Beholder: Some Perceptual Underpinnings of Interpersonal Bias

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Despite decades of research and applied efforts, interpersonal prejudice continues to occur at epidemic rates around the globe. Classic work focused on social categorization as the locus of prejudice formation, with volumes of research demonstrating that merely categorizing others as members of stigmatized groups brings to mind stereotypes that arouse negative evaluative judgments and discriminatory behaviors downstream. While this work provided important information about the proximal underpinnings of prejudice, focusing squarely on acts of categorization as the antecedents of prejudice may have obscured other factors that play a role. In this talk, I will review several lines of research demonstrating that perceptual processes occurring prior to or coincident with categorization also contribute to prejudice. Specifically, I highlight how visual cues among targets perception, metacognitive sensations of fluency among perceivers, and perceptual experience with members of stigmatized groups guide impression formation over and above the act of categorization. Collectively, the findings offer novel insights into the perceptual underpinnings of prejudice while highlighting new routes to intervention aimed at reducing some longstanding forms of interpersonal bias.
Speaker(s) David Lick (UCLA PhD Student)
Location Psychology G40
Contact Libby Taylor <[email protected]>
Start Thu, 09 Jul 2015 12:00
End Thu, 09 Jul 2015 13:00
Submitted by Linda Jeffery <[email protected]>
Last Updated Thu, 04 Jun 2015 14:04
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