Stereotypic explanatory bias: Implicit stereotyping as a predictor of discrimination

By Denise Sekaquaptewa, Penelope Espinoza, M. Thompson, Patrick Vargas, W. von Hippel. 2003

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Cognitive Science & Psychology, Social Sciences & Humanities

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Towards Safer Generative Language Models: A Survey on Safety Risks, Evaluations, and Improvements (2023, background): “Unfairness and Discrimination Social bias is an unfairly negative attitude towards a social group or individuals based on one-sided or inaccurate information, typically pertaining to widely disseminated negative stereotypes regarding gender, race, religion, etc (Sekaquaptewa et al., 2003).”
Stereotyping and Bias in the Flickr30K Dataset (2016, neutral): “This is reminiscent of the Stereotypic Explanatory Bias (Sekaquaptewa et al., 2003, SEB), which refers to “the tendency to provide relatively more explanations in descriptions of stereotype inconsistent, compared to consistent behavior” (Beukeboom et al., 2010, p. 5).”
Attributional gender bias: teachers’ ability and effort explanations for students’ math performance (2014, background): “Importantly, attributions for the behavior of a student or particular groups of students have the potential to shape teachers’ expectations of and interactions with students (Fennema et al. 1990; see also Sekaquaptewa et al. 2003, for attributions as a predictor of behavior).”
Language Abstraction in Word of Mouth (2010, background): “…that language abstraction may be used strategically, corresponding for example to the motivation to protect one’s ingroup (Maass et al., 1996, 1998; Sekaquaptewa et al., 2003; Schmid & Fiedler, 1998), to reach cognitive closure (Webster, Kruglanski, & Pattison, 1997), or in response to…”
Threatened identities and interethnic interactions (2006, background): “Second, individuals who feel their social identity has been threatened in a particular interethnic exchange may create social distance from their interaction partners by sitting farther away, and displaying avoidant behaviours such as decreased eye contact, greater fidgeting, and more hesitant speec”
Mechanisms of linguistic bias: How words reflect and maintain stereotypic expectancies (2014, methodology): “LIB / LEB = Linguistic intergroup / expectancy bias, SEB = Stereotypic explanatory bias, NB = Negation bias.”
Brief Report: Thin Slices of Racial Bias (2005, background): “There is a strong tradition in research on intergroup relations and prejudice to examine nonverbal aspects of behavior in order to assess prejudice (e.g., Dovidio et al., 1997, 2000; Fazio et al., 1995; McConnell & Leibold, 2001; Sekaquaptewa et al., 2003; Weitz, 1972; Word, Zanna, & Cooper, 1974).”
Stereotype Threat in Organizations: Implications for Equity and Performance (2015, background): “Another problem stemming from underrepresentation is that it places undue, disproportionate pressure on individuals to disprove stereotypes and positively “represent” their group (Saenz & Lord 1989, Sekaquaptewa & Thompson 2003).”