Implicit bias and stereotype is one of my favorite topics I have studied since joining Jepson, so I really enjoyed these readings. I had never read about the distinction between knowing and endorsing, but it made it easier to understand the concept of implicit bias (I wish I had learned it last semester). One thing I was unaware I agreed with was on page 107 when the authors stated, “First, it is well known that people recognize faces from their own racial/ethnic group more easily than other faces.” I never realized that! I began to think and found it applied to all intial group interactions I’ve had. It was easier for me to recognize people of Latinx background when I ran into them again versus non-Latinx. Also, for those intrigued by the pitbull section, watch the show Pitbulls & Parolees on Animal Planet. They do amazing work to rescue this wonderful breed and also work to remove the biases and stereotypes society has of them.
One thing this Blind reading and Hoyt’s reading make me think of was how stereotype threat can be applied to any population in any context. I am currently working with a professor on developing an experiment that will test stereotype threat within heritage speakers of Spanish. Heritage speakers who are 2nd and 3rd generation tend to have higher insecurity of their Spanish compared to those who grew up with it as a first language and are extremely comfortable. We would be interested in studying how this negatively self-stereotyped group is affected by stereotype threat in multiple aspects of their life, especially because “experiencing threats to one’s identity can have wide-ranging and meaningful effects beyond the most studied outcome of academic underperformance” (Hoyt & Murphy 2015)
I love Pitbulls & Parolees! I watched it all the time growing up and I think that’s why I don’t have an aversion to the breed like other people I know do. Pitbulls are huge softies and they’re great with kids; they definitely get a bad rep from human using them for dog fighting rings.
Reading your response made me realize the parallels between so stereotype threats. I wrote in my response how the issue with female leadership is we as a society have created the binding stereotypes that lead to women disengaging and dissociating with their careers, leading to struggling as leaders and even leaving before they get to leadership roles, and then we blame female nature. Self-made problem! Just like Pitbulls, we somehow blame them for the stigma our actions created?
It is amazing the amount of stereotype threats in different contexts of society. I definitely did not realize that women are blamed for the stigma society created just like Pitbulls are. There are so many parallels for stereotype threat, it makes me wonder the implications it has on society because they are so similar.
The research experiment you’re setting up sounds fascinating. I had never considered how many different arenas stereotype threat can be applied to.
Yes this phenomenon is known as the other race effect which has plays a huge impact on mistakenly sentencing minorities into jail. When I was in AP psychology we learned of a story where a black man was sentenced to jail for a crime he did not commit. The reason for this is because we are exposed to the faces of minorities far less than those of the majority of people making it harder to decipher between people.