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Two pieces of evidence of steps taken against discrimination:
1. After the wrongful murder of Matthew Shepherd and James Byrd Jr in 1998, the Matthew Shepherd Act (2009) was enacted. The Matthew Shepherd Act criminalizes those who cause intentional body injury or attempt of body injury, when the crime was committed or motivated on the basis of the race, color, or religion of the victim or the crime was committed because of the gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability of the victim.
2. In 2010, a survey was given and it was found that for the first time ever over 50% of Americans supported same-sex marriages. Which is a great step forward, for a decade ago, the percentage was much less, meaning people were not as accepting of same-sex marriage.
WHERE WE NEED TO GROW:
3. In a 2016 survey, nearly half of African Americans said others have treated them as suspicious or unintelligent compared with only about 10% of whites.
3a. African Americans were also six times as likely as whites to report having been stopped unfairly by the police.
4. People have moved on from old-fashioned racism, or in which people are more likely to openly admit to their racist attitudes. However, because of changing norms, this type of racism is obsolete. Instead, there is modern racism, in which prejudice is reveled in indirect ways because people know they shouldn't express blatant prejudice.

1. Boys at a camp were split into two groups randomly. They were made to take part in competitive activities and came to hate each other. Just putting them together and expecting them to work it out did not work. However when the bus broke down and the boys had to all work together to push the bus in order to get something that they all wanted they started to get along again. It shows that mutual interdependence and shared goals end prejudice.
2. Set in a summer camp, white, middle class boys age 11-12 were established into groups: Eagles and Rattlers. They had separate housing, meals, and activities (first stage). In the second stage, there was conflict. They had sports tournaments, of which brought upon verbal hostilities, vandalism, theft, and physical confrontation. In the third stage, there was conflict reduction through superordinate goals.

1) experimental and longitudinal research shows that watching media violence contributes to aggression.
2) this is especially true when the hero is easy to identify with and is triumphant
3) aggressive and frustrated people are more susceptible to the influence of media violence than are others.
EVIDENCE:
According to Singer and Singer, 1981, the more violence an individual watches, the more aggressive that person is. According to Ferguson, 2015, the more violent video games played by children, the more aggressive the tend to be. According to Huesmann et al., 1984,2003; Lefkowitz et al., 1977, the more violent programs an individual watches as child, the more likely that individual is to be violent up to 22 years later.

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Social contagion (the chameleon effect)—our tendency to unconsciously imitate others' behavior, expressions, postures, voice tones, and moods—is a form of conformity. Solomon Asch and others found that we are most likely to adjust our behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard when we feel incompetent or insecure, our group has at least three people, everyone else agrees, we admire the group's status and attractiveness, we have not already committed to another response, we know we are being observed, and our culture encourages respect for social standards. We may conform to gain approval (normative social influence) or because we are willing to accept others' opinions as new information (informational social influence).

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