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I Like My Group Because I Like Myself: Underlying Mechanisms of Implicit and Explicit Intergroup Bias

LeBel, Etinne P.The University of Western Ontario2006

Intergroup bias refers to the systematic tendency to evaluate one’s own membership groups more favorably than nonmembership groups. The present investigation tested a new mechanism underlying intergroup bias. Specifically, it is argued that categorizing oneself as a member of a group is sufficient …

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