Understanding the Psychology of Diversity
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Chapter 1: Introduction to the Psychology of Diversity
Video
The Beauty of Human Skin in Every Color:
This 11-min TedTalk discusses a photographer’s use of images to help combat discrimination. There is an interactive transcript available for the video.
Skin Color is an Illusion
This 15-min TedTalk discusses how skin color is a result of adaptation and evolution to the climate. There is an interactive transcript available for the video.
Audio
Let’s Rock this Chair: No to Ageism, Yes to Aging
This 45-min podcast discusses some of the discrimination older adults face.
What the Heck is Weight Stigma?
This 5-min podcast explains what weightism is.
Web
Race—Are we so Different
This website has interactive activities to explore the history of race, genetic variations, and the lived experience.
Measure of America
This website allows you to explore how diverse we are in America on various measures of health, education, and income by geographical location.
Breaking the Prejudice Habitat
This website contains a variety of multimedia material on the topic of encountering prejudice and ways to reduce discrimination.
The Color-Blind, Multicultural, and Polycultural Ideological Approaches to Improving Intergroup Attitudes and Behaviors
This online article discusses how different ideological approaches impact social group interactions.
Chapter 2: Categorization and Stereotyping: Cognitive Processes that Shape Perceived Diversity
Video
Fundamental Attribution Error: (4 min)
This brief video explains the difference between dispositional attributions and situational attributions.
Judgment and Decision Making (27 min)
This video provides a broad overview into how we make judgments and decisions.
Unconscious Bias (27 min)
This video explains how we unconsciously stereotype individuals and how that influences our thoughts and behavior.
Audio
Stereotypes and Prejudice (9 min)
This podcast provides an overview on the psychology of stereotypes and prejudice.
David Amodio: The Science of Prejudice
This hour-long interview with Neuroscientist, Dr. David Amodio, delves into the neuroscience of automatic judgments.
Web
The Psychology of Prejudice: An Overview
This website provides a comprehensive overview of the material in Chapter 2.
This Does Really Happen: Stereotypes Undermine Performance
This brief article focuses upon how stereotypes about your social group increases stress, thereby decreasing performance and confirming the stereotype.
Children Who Form No Racial Stereotypes Found
This article delineates how individuals with Williams Syndrome do not form racial stereotypes, but they still form gender stereotypes.
Chaos Promotes Stereotyping
This article explains research on how social decay may increase stereotyping.
Chapter 3: Stereotypes Expressed: Social Processes that Shape Diversity
Video
1. Self-fulfilling Prophesies Defined: http://study.com/academy/lesson/self-fulfilling-prophecy-in-education-definition-theory-examples.html
This 5-min video gives a broad overview of self-fulfilling prophecies.
2. Stereotype Threat and Self-fulfilling Prophesies
This 6-min video explains how stereotypes can lead to self-fulfilling propheses.
Audio
1. Tackling Asian Stereotypes in Film and TV
This 10-min podcast discusses the common Asian stereotypes in movies and television shows and strategies for trying to move beyond the stereotypes.
2. Big, Fat Stereotypes Play Out on the Small Screen
This 8-min podcast highlights the negative, stereotypical way obese individuals are portrayed in televisions shows.
Web
1. Windfarms, Wifi, and Self-Fulfilling Myths: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2013/03/03/windfarms-wifi-and-self-fulfilling-myths/#.WKXyeRwVGGA
This brief article discusses how our own expectations can cause self-fulfilling prophecies.
2. How Mindfulness Helped a Workplace Diversity Exercise
This article explains how a mindfulness diversity workshop helped decrease linguistic intergroup bias in the workplace.
Chapter 4: Prejudice: Evaluating Social Difference
Video
1. The Four Stories We Tell Ourselves About Death (15 min)
This TedTalk provides a nice overview of terror management theory.
2. Poet Against Prejudice (27 min)
This documentary follows a teenage immigrant from Yemen as she transitions from a victim of prejudice into an activist and role model for other young immigrants.
Audio
1. Psychology Conference: Are We Programmed to be Prejudiced? (27 min)
Dr. Alley discusses whether we are hard-wired to be prejudiced.
2. The Science of Prejudice(1 hr)
Dr. Amodio discusses the disconnect between White individuals reporting that they hold positive views of minority groups, while implicitly they hold negative views.
Web
1. Terminologies of Oppression
This website provides working definitions of the words used in prejudice, including the –isms discussed in Chapter 4.
2. The Struggle to Make AI Less Biased than Its Creators
This is a fascinating and disturbing short news article. It discusses how artificial intelligence algorithms produce results that are prejudiced.
3. The Psychology of Prejudice
This website has numerous resources on the history and psychology of prejudice, including this article.
Chapter 5: Understanding Racial Stereotypes and Racism
Video
1. Color Blind or Color Brave (14 min)
This TedTalk discusses why discussing race openly is important for our society.
2. Race and Reality in America: Five Key Findings (92 s)
This video highlights five key poll findings, including that many consider racism a larger concern today than 20 years ago.
Audio
1. Silicon Valley Church Hosts ‘Racists Anonymous’ Meetings: (3 min)
This brief podcasts tells of a church that considers racism an addiction and offers a 12-step program to recovery. At the very least, it’s different from most perspectives on racism.
2. Racism Today(2 min)
This podcast explains that while racism today is more nuanced and subtle than in previous times, it is still hurtful and harmful.
Web
1. How One Video Game Unflinchingly Tackles Racism with History and Raw Interactions
This is an interesting article examining whether video games can help improve empathy and decrease racism.
2. The International Movement against all Forms of Discrimination and Racism
The IBDR website explains how they are combatting discrimination and racism around the world.
3. Stand Against Racism
This website explains how it is taking a stand against racism and how you can get involved.
Chapter 6: Understanding Gender Stereotypes and Sexism
Video
1. The Courage to Tell a Hidden Story (4 min)
This very brief TedTalk gives some insight into the sexism women face in Palestine.
2. Why Gender Equality Is Good for Everyone—Men Included (16 min)
This humorous TedTalk explains why gender equality makes for both a happier workplace and a happier home.
Audio
1. Media and Sexism Podcast (7 min)
This brief podcast highlights sexism in the celebrity realm as well as outcomes associated with sexism for average girls and women.
2. Dealing With Workplace Sexism (26 min)
Like the title suggests, this podcast provides strategies for identifying, coping, and ending workplace sexism.
Web
1. List of Gender Stereotypes
This website discusses common gender stereotypes and the dangers of overgeneralization.
2. Yes, I’m Prolife, but I’m Not a Stereotype
This brief article discusses how within the female gender, we sometimes stereotype each other—and how we need to move beyond these stereotypes.
3. American Psychological Association: The Sexualization of Girls
This very important website (with a downloadable task force summary) delineates the research on how girls are sexualized and how this process hurts both girls and boys. Tips are also provided for parents and girls.
Chapter 7: Understanding Sex Stereotypes and Heterosexism
Video
1. The Fascinating, if Unreliable, History of Hate Crime Tracking in the United States(84 s)
This brief news video explains why hate crime tracking is difficult.
2. The New Weapon Against Hate Crimes (2 min)
This news story tells of a police officer working with local business to be safe havens for victims of hate crimes as they wait for police.
Audio
1. Hate Crimes Against Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, and Transgenders (52 min)
This podcast highlights forms of hate crimes and their psychological effects upon the victims.
2. Homophobia Still Alive and Well in United States (52 min)
This podcasts discusses whether complacency will threaten the strides made in the LGBT community.
Web
1. UC Davis—Definitions: Homophobia, Heterosexism, and Sexual Prejudice
This website provides some basic definitions and examples for homophobia, heterosexism, and sexual prejudice.
2. Stop Hate Crimes
This website provides statistics on LGBT hate crimes as well as additional information on the topic.
3. LGBT People Are More Likely to be Targets of Hate Crimes Than any Other Minority Group
This news article discusses how as more people become tolerant, others become more radicalized in their hate.
Chapter 8: Understanding Obesity Stereotypes and Weightism
Video
1. Enough With the Fear of Fat (12 min)
This TedTalk encourages viewers to examine our own biases regarding weight.
2. Women Debate Fat Acceptance (2 hr 30 min)
This is a CNN clip where fat activists debate an obesity prevention activist whether fat acceptance is good or detrimental to one’s health.
Audio
1. New York’s Sugary Drink Ban Struck Down (47 min)
This podcasts dives into controversial territory by asking if banning sugary drinks is a form of weightism or simply good public health policy.
2. You Cannot Shame Me: Two New Books Tear Down “Fat Girl” Stereotypes (7 min)
This podcasts discusses two new books on weightism, including the stereotypes associated with being overweight.
Web
1. Study: “Weight-ism” More Prevalent Than Racism
This brief article discusses how weightism is socially acceptable and rampant.
2. Fatosphere
This is a personal blog by a woman that is struggling with weightism. The material is raw, and may offend some, but it provides honest insight into the personal struggles an overweight person faces in society
3. “I’m Fat, So What? It’s Not an Ugly Word:” Why the f-Word Might Just Finally be Okay
This article discusses one woman’s journey through life as an overweight woman and the fat activist movement.
Chapter 9: Understanding Age Stereotypes and Ageism
Video
1. How Societies Can Grow Old Better (18 min)
This TedTalk compares and contrasts how various societies view and treat their elderly.
2. Societal Perceptions of Aging (59 min)
This talk discusses the history and incidences of ageism in the United States and ways to combat it.
Audio
1. 50 Something Women and Ageism in the Workplace (27 min)
This podcasts discusses how women encounter ageism at work even in the 21st century.
2. Diversity in the Workplace and Ageism (44 min)
This podcast discusses how individuals can face ageism both in the workplace and when trying to change careers.
Web
1. A New U.N. Health Goal Targets Folks 69 and Under. Ageism or Realism?
This NPR article explores the controversy surrounding the dedication of healthcare dollars to those under 70, leaving those 70 and older with limited access to healthcare.
2. AARP
If you go to the AARP website and search for ageism, a few hundred different webpages, stories, and videos will be accessible.
3. National Institute on Aging
This website has numerous resources related to aging.
Chapter 10: Social Stigma: The Experience of Prejudice
Video
1. The Urgency of Intersectionality (19 min)
The TedTalk explains the difficulties faced when one belongs to more than one stigmatized group.
2. Carrie Fisher’s Honesty about Mental Illness and Addiction Helped Fight Stigma (2 min)
This news story explains how talking about personal struggles with stigmatized issues can decrease the stigmatization.
Audio
1. Erase the Stigma
In this brief podcast, a mother of a mentally ill child tells that while talking about mental illness can decrease the stigmatization, it is sometimes tempting to stay quiet because of public perceptions.
2. San Francisco Nonprofit for the Blind Receives US$125 Million Windfall from a Mysterious Donor
A nonprofit organization is using donated funds to fight the stigma of blindness.
Web
1. American Psychological Association—Office on AIDS
This website provides a plethora of information and resources regarding this stigmatized group.
2. Stigma of Mental Illness a Major Concern for Millennials
This is a very compelling and touching news article about college students struggling not just with mental illness but also with the stigma that comes along with it.
3. Meghan Markle: How Periods Affect Potential
This news article tells of how the stigma of menstruation hinders the lives of females in India
Chapter 11: Coping with Social Stigma
Video
1. Breaking the Stigma (Part 1—5 min)
Individuals that struggle with the stigma of mental illness discuss strategies for coping.
2. Breaking the Stigma (Part 2—6 min)
This is a continuation of Part 1.
Audio
1. Mindfulness and Behavior (30 min)
This mindfulness meditation explains how mindfulness allows one to be more aware and purposeful in his or her behavior.
2. Working With Difficult Emotional Pain (30 min)
Being a member of a stigmatized group hurts. The mindful meditation explains how to heal from this hurt.
Web
1. ACT Mindfully
This website provides a variety of resources on acceptance and commitment therapy.
2. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
This article succinctly explains the major tenets of ACT.
3. Ending Mental Health Stigma Through Mindfulness
This website provides five steps to take to help end stigmas regarding mental illness.
Chapter 12: Responding to Social Inequality: Behavioral and Cognitive Interventions for Reducing Prejudice
Video
1. How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them (18 min)
This TedTalk discusses the importance of acknowledging our biases and interacting with the out-groups that make us uncomfortable.
2. How Economic Inequality Harms Societies (17 min)
"This TedTalk explains how economic inequality impacts health and trust.
Audio
1. Understanding Poverty and Inequality in the 21st Century
How poverty today differs from poverty in the past is discussed in this podcast.
2. Family Complexity, Inequality, and Public Policy
The podcast explores how families are becoming more complex, how that may influence inequality, and the struggle of public policy to keep up with this phenomenon.
Web
1. On Views of Race and Inequality, Blacks and Whites are Worlds Apart
This Pew report examines differences in social justice opinions between Black and White Americans.
2. Racial, Gender Wage Gap Persist in the United States Despite Some Progress
This study evaluates how gender and race impact salaries.
3. Toward Gender Equality in the Arab/Middle East Region: Islam, Culture, and Feminist Activism
This United Nations report examines how females are treated inequitably in the Middle East.
