Stigma Manage Social Interactions

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How do targets of stigma manage social interactions? We were all told that everything are supposed to be equal. We built from a threat-specific model of prejudice to predict that targets select impression-management strategies that address the particular threats other people see them to pose. We recruited participants from two groups perceived to pose different threats: overweight people, who are heuristically associated with disease and targeted with disgust, and Black men, who are perceived to be dangerous and targeted with fear. People make all of these false assumptions that carry on from one generation to another and I believe it is a big issue. When stereotypes and prejudices toward their groups were made salient, overweight people (Studies