Author Question: Cooperation between members of different groups has been shown to be A) an ineffective way to ... (Read 138 times)

skymedlock · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Cooperation between members of different groups has been shown to be

A) an ineffective way to reduce prejudice, because it increases the tendency to view each other's group in a simplified way.
B) an effective way to reduce prejudice, because it motivates people to be accurate in their understanding of outgroup members.
C) an effective way to reduce prejudice, because it forces people to form impressions when they are cognitively overloaded.
D) an effective way to reduce prejudice only when the contact occurs at the institutional rather than the individual level.

Question 2

A study by Fein and Spencer (1997) demonstrated that participants who had unfavorable stereotypes of Jewish people were LESS likely to discriminate against a Jewish applicant in their evaluations if,

before making their evaluations, they were asked to write about things important to them. Which of the following approaches to reducing prejudice does this finding support?
A) goal-based approach
B) cognitive activation approach
C) self-perception hypothesis
D) ignorance hypothesis