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adaptive conservatism: evolutionary principle that creates a predisposition toward distrusting anything or anyone unfamiliar or different
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discrimination: negative behavior toward members of out-groups
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implicit and explicit stereotypes: beliefs about the characteristics of an out-group about which we're either unaware (implicit) or aware (explicit)
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in-group bias: tendency to favor individuals within our group over those from outside our group
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jigsaw classrooms: educational approach designed to minimize prejudice by requiring all children to make independent contributions to a shared project
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just-world hypothesis: claim that our attributions and behaviors are shaped by a deep-seated assumption that the world is fair and all things happen for a reason (justin)
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out-group homogeneity: tendency to view all individuals outside our group as highly similar
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prejudice: drawing conclusions about a person, group of people, or situation prior to evaluating the evidence
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scapegoat hypothesis: claim that prejudice arises from a need to blame other groups for our misfortunes
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stereotype: a belief, positive or negative, about the characteristics of members of a group that is applied generally to most members of the group
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ultimate attribution error: assumption that behaviors among individual members of a group are due to their internal dispositions
