Intergroup bias

Title: Intergroup bias
Creator: Hewstone, Miles; Rubin, Mark; Willis, Hazel
Relation: Annual Review of Psychology Vol. 53, p. 575-604
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.53.100901.135109
Publisher: Annual Reviews
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2002
Description: This chapter reviews the extensive literature on bias in favor of in-groups at the expense of out-groups. We focus on five issues and identify areas for future research: (a) measurement and conceptual issues (especially in-group favoritism vs. out-group derogation, and explicit vs. implicit measures of bias); (b) modern theories of bias highlighting motivational explanations (social identity, optimal distinctiveness, uncertainty reduction, social dominance, terror management); (c) key moderators of bias, especially those that exacerbate bias (identification, group size, status and power, threat, positive-negative asymmetry, personality and individual differences); (d) reduction of bias (individual vs. intergroup approaches, especially models of social categorization); and (e) the link between intergroup bias and more corrosive forms of social hostility.
Subject: conflict; discrimination; prejudice; social categorization; stereotyping
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/27247
Identifier: uon:1502
Identifier: ISSN:0066-4308
Language: eng
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