The lived experience of overcoming prejudice - Sorensen, Kristin
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Prejudice and overcoming prejudice have been defined and explained in their manifest forms, rather than illustrated as lived experiences within individual life-worlds. The participants in the present study indicated that contact and some of the associated characteristics (e.g., equal status and common goals) were not sufficient in overcoming prejudice. The participants had previously incorporated their prejudices into their ways of being; for example, stereotypes and expectations became difficult to discard. When the participants were startled by individuals whom they had previously regarded…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Prejudice and overcoming prejudice have been defined and explained in their manifest forms, rather than illustrated as lived experiences within individual life-worlds. The participants in the present study indicated that contact and some of the associated characteristics (e.g., equal status and common goals) were not sufficient in overcoming prejudice. The participants had previously incorporated their prejudices into their ways of being; for example, stereotypes and expectations became difficult to discard. When the participants were startled by individuals whom they had previously regarded as the negative others behaving in ways that contradicted what the participants had come to know, their attitudes were challenged.
Autorenporträt
Kristin Sorensen graduated with honors from Seattle University in 1997 with a major in psychology and minor in philosophy. She attended Saybrook Graduate School and was awarded an MA in Psychology in 2000, and a PhD in Psychology in 2004. She is an Associate Professor of Psychology, teaching at Defiance College, in Defiance, Ohio, USA.