Prejudice and Stereotyping Psychology: How Group Bias Works

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People often use the words stereotype, prejudice, bias, and discrimination as if they describe the same thing. They do not. Psychology separates them because a belief about a group, an emotional evaluation of that group, an automatic association, and a decision about how to treat a person are different psychological events. That distinction matters in … Read more