{"id":91157,"date":"2023-02-01T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=91157"},"modified":"2023-02-08T12:30:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T16:30:05","slug":"psychology-of-prejudice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/psychology-of-prejudice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What is the psychology behind prejudice? Why do people stereotype others?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being discriminatory toward others is a horrible thing, but some people try to excuse it. In Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)<\/em>, Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson explain why some people’s brains stereotype others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more to learn the psychology of prejudice and why some people discriminate against others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Stereotypes and Prejudice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One specific means of harming others that our brains skillfully justify is having prejudice\u2014predetermined opinions about a group of people that aren\u2019t based on reason or experience. The authors argue there’s a psychology of prejudice\u2014everyone is capable of prejudice because of the way our brains work, and we naturally organize information into categories that become stereotypes when applied to other people.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: In Biased<\/em><\/a>, Jennifer Eberhardt expands on Tavris and Aronson\u2019s assertion that categorization is a normal aspect of human brain function, stating that it\u2019s necessary to help us process the enormous amount of information we encounter every day. At the same time, it becomes problematic when we apply it to other people. According to Eberhardt, studies show that we\u2019re predisposed to focus on faces we\u2019ve sorted into a \u201clike me\u201d category,<\/a> and we block out or ignore other faces. This means that our brains see the faces of people in our own race as individuals with distinct features, while we perceive people of other races as part of a general group.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stereotypes can be advantageous\u2014they allow us to make choices using past experiences, recognize important differences between groups of people, and judge how others will likely act in a given situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: While stereotypes may save you some cognitive energy, you should never rely on them as a guide for how to treat others as they\u2019re inherently reductive. To deconstruct the stereotypes that you hold, use a technique called negative empiricism, as outlined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a> in The Black Swan<\/em><\/a>. Negative empiricism involves seeking out information that disproves your original belief.<\/a> For example, say you think women aren\u2019t as good at math and science as men. To disprove this stereotype, you could look for examples of women\u2019s achievements in the STEM field or research the barriers women have to overcome to be successful in STEM.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, stereotypes also harmfully emphasize the differences between<\/em> groups of people and diminish the differences within<\/em> groups of people. They allow us to make generalizations about another group that justify our poor treatment of them while maintaining our sense of righteousness, and these generalizations can turn into prejudices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: Many stereotypes serve as justifications for wide societal inequalities, not just the bad treatment of individuals. These are called pathological stereotypes<\/em><\/a>. Instead of finding fault with the system, we explain social and economic disparities by placing fault with the people in the lower social position. For example, there are many unfounded, harmful stereotypes that help justify poverty<\/a>\u2014that poor people are lazy<\/a>, that they don\u2019t want to work, that they\u2019re not interested in education, that they abuse drugs and alcohol, and so on.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Self-Justification and Prejudice<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The design of the brain also makes it difficult to identify prejudice in ourselves. The authors argue that this is because the brain is built to convince us we <\/strong>aren\u2019t<\/em><\/strong> biased<\/strong>\u2014it persuades us that our perception of reality<\/a> is clear and accurate (a phenomenon called naive realism<\/em>). We believe that if an opinion wasn\u2019t reasonable, we wouldn\u2019t have it, so other fair, good, reasonable people will see things the same way we do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: As Tavris and Aronson state, we\u2019re biased to think that what we perceive is objective reality, but this belief is entirely false<\/a>. Our brains are constantly fed raw data from our sensory organs\u2014eyes, ears, mouth, nose, tongue, and skin\u2014which the brain then ascribes subjective meaning to. From a neuroscience perspective, without the brain\u2019s ability to interpret, information is meaningless. Therefore, everyone\u2019s reality is based solely on perception, which is inherently subjective. For example, in 2015, a picture of a dress went viral<\/a> because half the internet saw the dress as white and gold while the other half saw a blue and black dress, proving that two people can look at the same picture and see something completely different.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We justify our prejudices with the belief that our hostility toward other groups of people is reasonable and warranted (or else, we wouldn\u2019t feel it), and it\u2019s the other group that needs to change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: Research suggests that it\u2019s much easier to maintain prejudice against a group of people than it is to hate an individual.<\/a> When you hate a whole group, you\u2019re less likely to be confronted with a specific person from that group and thus with any information that contradicts your prejudices. In contrast, when you hate an individual, you\u2019re much more likely to gain empathy for that person or experience something that shows a positive side of them that you didn\u2019t see before. Studies conducted in conflict regions showed that 80 percent of people telling stories about people they hated mentioned groups instead of individuals.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That being said, most of us still aren\u2019t truly comfortable with our prejudices, the authors argue. Our negative feelings about another group of people conflict with our understanding that it\u2019s morally or socially unacceptable to feel that way. This threatens our view of ourselves as good people and creates uncomfortable dissonance with our perceived righteousness, which we dispel through further self-justification<\/a>. We self-justify<\/a> by reinforcing our belief in harmful stereotypes<\/a> (for example, the belief that the other group is violent, unintelligent, or untrustworthy). This cycle allows us to continue causing harm to the group while maintaining our sense of righteousness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: No matter how empathetic or open-minded we try to be, we\u2019re all susceptible to the prejudices and biases described here. What matters most is how we address<\/em> them. Instead of self-justifying to alleviate the discomfort of your biases and consequently harmfully acting on those biases, try actively working against them. One way to do this is by identifying your implicit biases\u2014attitudes towards people or stereotypes we associate with them without conscious awareness.<\/a> You can do this using an implicit bias test, like Harvard\u2019s Implicit Association Test (IAT)<\/a>. When you become conscious of your implicit biases, you can more easily identify and counteract patterns of thinking that support them.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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