Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

N000492

Zusammenfassung

Social psychologists have for long noticed the ease and robustness with which adults develop discriminatory attitudes and behaviors that favor their ?in-group" (those similar to them) and undermine their ?out-group" (those different from them). From a cognitive point of view, one of the key foundations of such inter-group biases is the so-called ?out-group homogeneity effect" ? the tendency to represent in- and out-group members in fundamentally different ways, such that the former are primarily seen as distinct individuals whereas the latter are seen as tokens of a homogeneous type. ...