{"id":35446,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/psychology-of-prejudice"},"modified":"2017-08-16T06:32:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T06:32:43","slug":"psychology-of-prejudice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/psychology-of-prejudice\/","title":{"rendered":"psychology of prejudice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the_content_wrapper\">\n<p>psychology of prejudice<\/p>\n<p>answer this question in two pages<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the semester, we have discussed the role of self-esteem in creating prejudiced attitudes and thinking. On one hand, many personality theorists (e.g., Adorno et al., 1950) argue that hatred and hostility toward outgroups are a result of low self-esteem. That is, people with a negative self-image have a need to disparage outgroups as a way to increase their own sense of self-worth. On the other hand, a number of cognitive theorists (e.g., Tajfel &amp; Turner, 1986) contend that prejudice is tied to high self-esteem. Specifically, a favorable self-image may lead people to assume that the groups of which they are members are superior to other groups in society. Thus, the question: Is it low or high self-esteem that is most responsible for prejudice? Or, is self-esteem even related to prejudice at all? What do you think?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>psychology of prejudice answer this question in two pages Throughout the semester, we have discussed the role of self-esteem in creating prejudiced attitudes and thinking. On one hand, many personality theorists (e.g., Adorno et al., 1950) argue that hatred and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/psychology-of-prejudice\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}