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#779 Keelah Williams: Stereotypes, Perceptions of Criminal Behavior, and Friendships

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The Relationship Between Stereotypes and Prejudice

Stereotypes refer to the cognitive part of it that we believe an individual is going to act a certain way because of their group membership. Prejudices refer to the affective, the emotional component. And they connect with one another because the belief that you have about someone is going to elicit a particular emotional reaction to them. So for example, if you have a belief, a stereotype, that gay men carry disease then that could lead you to feel disgust. That felt disgust can lead you to discriminate against that individual.

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