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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 52 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Prejudice.
1. Prejudice: The Interplay of Personality, Cognition, and Social Psychology
Sammanfattning : Three main theoretical approaches to the study of the causation of prejudice can be distinguished within psychological research. The cognitive approach suggests that prejudice is a function of cognitive processes where stereotypic information about social groups, stored in memory, is automatically activated and affects people’s judgements and behavior toward members of the target group. LÄS MER
2. Olfaction and prejudice : The role of body odor disgust sensitivity and disease avoidance in understanding social attitudes
Sammanfattning : Disease avoidance is one of the main roles of olfaction. In particular, body odors are universal elicitors of disgust, a core emotion that plays a key role in disease avoidance. The disease avoidance theoretical framework emphasizes psychological mechanisms – attitudes and behaviors – aiming to recognize and evade pathogen threats. LÄS MER
3. Social Hierarchies, Prejudice, and Discrimination
Sammanfattning : This thesis is based on three papers where I examine some aspects of ethnic and gender-based prejudice and discrimination in hierarchical situations. In Paper I, the existence of ethnic hierarchies in Sweden is explored. LÄS MER
4. Prejudiced Personalities Revisited : On the Nature of (Generalized) Prejudice
Sammanfattning : In the media, one type of prejudice is often discussed as isolated from other types of prejudice. For example, after Breivik’s massacre, intolerance toward Muslims was intensely debated (for good reasons). However, his manifesto also disclosed extreme attitudes towards women and gays, a fact which passed without much notice. LÄS MER
5. Higher education and the evolution of prejudice
Sammanfattning : Background: This dissertation looks at the effect of higher education on prejudice, in particular anti-immigrant sentiment. In studies of prejudice, higher education is constantly shown to correlate to lower levels of prejudice, the so-called “liberalizing effect of education,” yet we do not fully understand to what extent education matters for these attitudes. LÄS MER