Watching others’ biased behaviour unconsciously creates prejudice: New research shows for the first time that observational learning is an important mechanism of prejudice formation. This mechanism helps to explain how societal prejudices spread so easily through TV and social media.
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#ObservationalLearning #PrejudiceFormation #SocialBias #SocietalPrejudices #MediaInfluence
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Watching others’ biased behaviour unconsciously creates prejudice
We unconsciously form prejudice toward groups when we see biased people interact with members of a group. That is according to new research by psychologists of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), who show for the first time that observational learning is an…
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