Uncertainty Threat Can Cause Stereotyping

Prejudice, clinical uncertainty and stereotyping as sources of health disparities.

Disparities in health can result from the clinical encounter between a doctor and a patient. This paper studies three possible mechanisms: prejudice of doctors in the form of being less willing to interact with members of minority groups, clinical uncertainty associated with doctors' differential interpretation of symptoms from minority patients or from doctor's distinct priors across races, an...

Uncertainty modelling for threat analysis

Accurate modelling of information and knowledge is central to the modern command and control (C2) process. Without models and a language for describing them, it is impossible to collaborate on C2. All information which enters a C2 system will be uncertain, and hence it is important to be able to model the uncertainty in a way that makes it possible for us to understand it. Some kinds of knowled...

Can Gender-Fair Language Reduce Gender Stereotyping and Discrimination?

Gender-fair language (GFL) aims at reducing gender stereotyping and discrimination. Two principle strategies have been employed to make languages gender-fair and to treat women and men symmetrically: neutralization and feminization. Neutralization is achieved, for example, by replacing male-masculine forms (policeman) with gender-unmarked forms (police officer), whereas feminization relies on t...

Self-image threat decreases stereotyping: The role of motivation toward closure

Some prior research indicated that self-image threat may lead people to stereotyping and prejudiced evaluations of others. Other studies found that self-image threat may promote less stereotypical thinking and unprejudiced behavior. In a series of three studies, we demonstrate that self-image threat may lead to either more or less stereotypical perception of the outgroup depending on the level ...

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