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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"intergroup bias"”.
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Subliminal Exposure to Empathy Primes: A New Method to Reduce Intergroup Bias?
… has demonstrated the benefits of empathy for intergroup relations (e.g., Batson, Chang, Orr, & Rowland, 2002). In addition, empathy has been identified as the mechanism by which various successful prejudice-reduction procedures impact attitudes and behaviour (e.g., Costello & Hodson, 2010). …
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I Like My Group Because I Like Myself: Underlying Mechanisms of Implicit and Explicit Intergroup Bias
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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A Psychological and Empirical Investigation of the Online Echo Chamber Phenomenon
… in agreement with their own attitudes, and their Intergroup Bias, which reflects to which degree subjects’ identify as members of an in-group that is in conflict with negatively perceived out-groups. The studies employed questionnaire-based, experimental, as well as real-word data driven …
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Ingroup bias : the effect of status, legitimacy and cooperation on intergroup relations
Research on the effect of intergroup cooperation on intergroup relations has produced contradictory results. The functionalist proposition that cooperation leads to the reduction of intergroup discrimination has not been widely supported by empirical evidence. An emerging trend indicates that …
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Inducing the Use of Racial Labels: The Impact of Defying Colourblind Norms on Explicit Prejudice
… norms can have adverse effects on subsequent intergroup bias. In particular, research has demonstrated that not acknowledging race can actually increase prejudice (Kawakami et al., in preparation). The current research uses a novel paradigm, related to an ambiguous interracial photograph, to …
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Seeing the good and bad in culture: An exploration of the construct of cultural complexity
… associated with variables conducive to positive intergroup contact (e.g., cultural humility). Study 2 was an experimental study that provided evidence suggesting that cultural complexity attenuated intergroup bias, especially outgroup derogation, when people’s group identity was threatened. Study …
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Understanding the Role of Emotions in Mediated Intergroup Threat: A Cultivation and Appraisal Theory Approach
… sought to extend research in mediated intergroup communication by examining the role of emotion in producing intergroup bias. Two studies were guided by social identity theory, appraisal-based theories of emotion, and cultivation theory. Study 1 surveyed 254 adults, recruited through …
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Images of Americans: The United States in Canadian newspapers during the 1960s
… social psychological method of the Linguistic Intergroup Bias as a form of content analysis, this thesis finds that newspaper coverage from 1960 through 1970 was a complex blend of various streams of opinion which fell into three major categories: positive orientations towards Americans, …
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Animals Are Us: Applying the Common Ingroup Identity Model to Humane Education
… categorization with both reducing and creating intergroup bias. It postulates decategorization and recategorization as factors changing ingroup boundaries, so former outgroup members can be seen as current ingroup members. The study aimed at gauging the effect of decategorization and …