Stereotypes, Public Compliance, And Negative State Relief

Over the course of two days, the lives of some Los Angeles citizens strategically clash infiltrating conflicting intersections of race, ethnicity, class, and gender driven by their apprehensive interactions. The film Crash portrays an exemplary depiction of contemporary society entangled in the cyclic, and often chaotic, entails of modern prejudice – a lingering by-product of big-city living. In an attempt to flesh out the complexity and breadth of modern prejudice as a consequence of fear and urban-living (urban-overload hypothesis); I will propose and elaborate connections to three social-psychological concepts: stereotypes, public compliance, and negative-state relief hypothesis as some of its perpetuating agents. Additionally, these concepts will be elaborated within scenic depictions of the film and connected to social-psychological research findings to provide depth. 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