Behavioral Economics and Social Exclusion : Can Interventions Overcome Prejudice?

Behavioral economics recognizes that mental models -- intuitive sets of ideas about how things work -- can bias an individual's perceptions of himself and the world. By representing an ascriptive category of people as unworthy, a mental model...

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Main Author:	Hoff, Karla
Format:	Publications & Research
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank Group, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:	ANALOGY ANTHROPOLOGIST ANTHROPOLOGY ATTENDANCE AT SCHOOL ATTENTION AUTONOMY BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT BEHAVIORS BELIEFS BRAIN CHASTITY CLASSROOM CLASSROOMS COGNITION COGNITIVE SCIENCE COGNITIVE THEORY COMMUNITIES CULTURAL MEANING CULTURAL MODELS DECISION MAKING DEPENDENCE DISCRIMINATION DISCUSSION DISCUSSIONS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EMPLOYMENT ETHNICITY FAMILIES GENDER GIRLS GROUP MEMBERSHIP HEURISTICS HOUSEHOLDS HUMAN RIGHTS IDEAS IDENTITY INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE INFERENCE INFIBULATION INFORMATION PROCESSING INSIGHTS INTERVENTIONS INTUITION JOB MARKET LAND OWNERSHIP LEADERSHIP LEADING LITERATURE MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY MENTAL MODELS MENTAL REPRESENTATION MIGRANTS MUTILATION NONFORMAL EDUCATION NORMS OPEN ACCESS PAPERS PERCEPTION PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS PERSONAL INTERACTIONS PERSONALITY POWER PRIMING PRODUCTIVITY PSYCHOLOGY PUBLIC SCHOOLS PUBLISHERS REASONING RECALL RECOGNITION RESEARCH FINDINGS SCHOLARSHIPS SLAVERY SOCIAL BEHAVIOR SOCIAL CATEGORIES SOCIAL CHANGE SOCIAL GROUP SOCIAL GROUPS SOCIAL IDENTITY SOCIAL INTERACTIONS SOCIAL MEANINGS SOCIAL MOBILITY SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY SOCIAL SCIENTISTS SOCIETIES SOCIETY SOCIOLOGISTS SOCIOLOGY SPORTS STUDENT LEARNING STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES SYMBOLS TEACHER TEACHER ABSENTEEISM TEACHERS THINKING THOUGHTS TRAITS VILLAGES VISITS TO SCHOOLS WELFARE STATE
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spelling	okr-10986-215912021-04-23T14:04:03Z Behavioral Economics and Social Exclusion : Can Interventions Overcome Prejudice? Hoff, Karla ANALOGY ANTHROPOLOGIST ANTHROPOLOGY ATTENDANCE AT SCHOOL ATTENTION AUTONOMY BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT BEHAVIORS BELIEFS BRAIN CHASTITY CLASSROOM CLASSROOMS COGNITION COGNITIVE SCIENCE COGNITIVE THEORY COMMUNITIES CULTURAL MEANING CULTURAL MODELS DECISION MAKING DEPENDENCE DISCRIMINATION DISCUSSION DISCUSSIONS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EMPLOYMENT ETHNICITY FAMILIES GENDER GIRLS GROUP MEMBERSHIP HEURISTICS HOUSEHOLDS HUMAN RIGHTS IDEAS IDENTITY INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE INFERENCE INFIBULATION INFORMATION PROCESSING INSIGHTS INTERVENTIONS INTUITION JOB MARKET LAND OWNERSHIP LEADERSHIP LEADING LITERATURE MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY MENTAL MODELS MENTAL REPRESENTATION MIGRANTS MUTILATION NONFORMAL EDUCATION NORMS OPEN ACCESS PAPERS PERCEPTION PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS PERSONAL INTERACTIONS PERSONALITY POWER PRIMING PRODUCTIVITY PSYCHOLOGY PUBLIC SCHOOLS PUBLISHERS REASONING RECALL RECOGNITION RESEARCH FINDINGS SCHOLARSHIPS SLAVERY SOCIAL BEHAVIOR SOCIAL CATEGORIES SOCIAL CHANGE SOCIAL GROUP SOCIAL GROUPS SOCIAL IDENTITY SOCIAL INTERACTIONS SOCIAL MEANINGS SOCIAL MOBILITY SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY SOCIAL SCIENTISTS SOCIETIES SOCIETY SOCIOLOGISTS SOCIOLOGY SPORTS STUDENT LEARNING STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES SYMBOLS TEACHER TEACHER ABSENTEEISM TEACHERS THINKING THOUGHTS TRAITS VILLAGES VISITS TO SCHOOLS WELFARE STATE Behavioral economics recognizes that mental models -- intuitive sets of ideas about how things work -- can bias an individual's perceptions of himself and the world. By representing an ascriptive category of people as unworthy, a mental model can foster unjust social exclusion of, for example, a race, gender, caste, or class. Since the representation is a social construction, shouldn't society be able to control it? But how? This paper considers three interventions that have had some success in developing countries: (1) Group deliberation in Senegal challenged the traditional mental model of female genital cutting and contributed to the abandonment of the practice; (2) political reservations for women and low castes in India improved the way men perceived women, the way parents perceived their daughters, and the way women perceived themselves, but have not generally had positive effects on the low castes; and (3) reductions in the salience of identity closed performance gaps between dominant and stigmatized groups in experiments in India and China. Spoiled collective identities need to be changed or made less prominent in order to overcome social exclusion. 2015-03-11T20:25:54Z 2015-03-11T20:25:54Z 2015-02 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/02/24021122/behavioral-economics-social-exclusion-can-interventions-overcome-prejudice http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21591 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7198 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Group, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa East Asia and Pacific South Asia
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topic	ANALOGY ANTHROPOLOGIST ANTHROPOLOGY ATTENDANCE AT SCHOOL ATTENTION AUTONOMY BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT BEHAVIORS BELIEFS BRAIN CHASTITY CLASSROOM CLASSROOMS COGNITION COGNITIVE SCIENCE COGNITIVE THEORY COMMUNITIES CULTURAL MEANING CULTURAL MODELS DECISION MAKING DEPENDENCE DISCRIMINATION DISCUSSION DISCUSSIONS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EMPLOYMENT ETHNICITY FAMILIES GENDER GIRLS GROUP MEMBERSHIP HEURISTICS HOUSEHOLDS HUMAN RIGHTS IDEAS IDENTITY INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE INFERENCE INFIBULATION INFORMATION PROCESSING INSIGHTS INTERVENTIONS INTUITION JOB MARKET LAND OWNERSHIP LEADERSHIP LEADING LITERATURE MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY MENTAL MODELS MENTAL REPRESENTATION MIGRANTS MUTILATION NONFORMAL EDUCATION NORMS OPEN ACCESS PAPERS PERCEPTION PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS PERSONAL INTERACTIONS PERSONALITY POWER PRIMING PRODUCTIVITY PSYCHOLOGY PUBLIC SCHOOLS PUBLISHERS REASONING RECALL RECOGNITION RESEARCH FINDINGS SCHOLARSHIPS SLAVERY SOCIAL BEHAVIOR SOCIAL CATEGORIES SOCIAL CHANGE SOCIAL GROUP SOCIAL GROUPS SOCIAL IDENTITY SOCIAL INTERACTIONS SOCIAL MEANINGS SOCIAL MOBILITY SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY SOCIAL SCIENTISTS SOCIETIES SOCIETY SOCIOLOGISTS SOCIOLOGY SPORTS STUDENT LEARNING STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES SYMBOLS TEACHER TEACHER ABSENTEEISM TEACHERS THINKING THOUGHTS TRAITS VILLAGES VISITS TO SCHOOLS WELFARE STATE
spellingShingle	ANALOGY ANTHROPOLOGIST ANTHROPOLOGY ATTENDANCE AT SCHOOL ATTENTION AUTONOMY BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT BEHAVIORS BELIEFS BRAIN CHASTITY CLASSROOM CLASSROOMS COGNITION COGNITIVE SCIENCE COGNITIVE THEORY COMMUNITIES CULTURAL MEANING CULTURAL MODELS DECISION MAKING DEPENDENCE DISCRIMINATION DISCUSSION DISCUSSIONS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EMPLOYMENT ETHNICITY FAMILIES GENDER GIRLS GROUP MEMBERSHIP HEURISTICS HOUSEHOLDS HUMAN RIGHTS IDEAS IDENTITY INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE INFERENCE INFIBULATION INFORMATION PROCESSING INSIGHTS INTERVENTIONS INTUITION JOB MARKET LAND OWNERSHIP LEADERSHIP LEADING LITERATURE MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY MENTAL MODELS MENTAL REPRESENTATION MIGRANTS MUTILATION NONFORMAL EDUCATION NORMS OPEN ACCESS PAPERS PERCEPTION PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS PERSONAL INTERACTIONS PERSONALITY POWER PRIMING PRODUCTIVITY PSYCHOLOGY PUBLIC SCHOOLS PUBLISHERS REASONING RECALL RECOGNITION RESEARCH FINDINGS SCHOLARSHIPS SLAVERY SOCIAL BEHAVIOR SOCIAL CATEGORIES SOCIAL CHANGE SOCIAL GROUP SOCIAL GROUPS SOCIAL IDENTITY SOCIAL INTERACTIONS SOCIAL MEANINGS SOCIAL MOBILITY SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY SOCIAL SCIENTISTS SOCIETIES SOCIETY SOCIOLOGISTS SOCIOLOGY SPORTS STUDENT LEARNING STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES SYMBOLS TEACHER TEACHER ABSENTEEISM TEACHERS THINKING THOUGHTS TRAITS VILLAGES VISITS TO SCHOOLS WELFARE STATE Hoff, Karla Behavioral Economics and Social Exclusion : Can Interventions Overcome Prejudice?
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relation	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7198
description	Behavioral economics recognizes that mental models -- intuitive sets of ideas about how things work -- can bias an individual's perceptions of himself and the world. By representing an ascriptive category of people as unworthy, a mental model can foster unjust social exclusion of, for example, a race, gender, caste, or class. Since the representation is a social construction, shouldn't society be able to control it? But how? This paper considers three interventions that have had some success in developing countries: (1) Group deliberation in Senegal challenged the traditional mental model of female genital cutting and contributed to the abandonment of the practice; (2) political reservations for women and low castes in India improved the way men perceived women, the way parents perceived their daughters, and the way women perceived themselves, but have not generally had positive effects on the low castes; and (3) reductions in the salience of identity closed performance gaps between dominant and stigmatized groups in experiments in India and China. Spoiled collective identities need to be changed or made less prominent in order to overcome social exclusion.
format	Publications & Research
author	Hoff, Karla
author_facet	Hoff, Karla
author_sort	Hoff, Karla
title	Behavioral Economics and Social Exclusion : Can Interventions Overcome Prejudice?
title_short	Behavioral Economics and Social Exclusion : Can Interventions Overcome Prejudice?
title_full	Behavioral Economics and Social Exclusion : Can Interventions Overcome Prejudice?
title_fullStr	Behavioral Economics and Social Exclusion : Can Interventions Overcome Prejudice?
title_full_unstemmed	Behavioral Economics and Social Exclusion : Can Interventions Overcome Prejudice?
title_sort	behavioral economics and social exclusion : can interventions overcome prejudice?
publisher	World Bank Group, Washington, DC
publishDate	2015
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/02/24021122/behavioral-economics-social-exclusion-can-interventions-overcome-prejudice http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21591
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