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Intergroup Contact Theory: Past, Present, and Future

... In the midst of racial segregation in the U.S.A and the ‘Jim Crow Laws’, Gordon Allport (1954) proposed one of the most ... & Hewstone, 1992), and making an overarching common ingroup identity salient (Gaertner, Dovidio, Anastasio, Bachman, & Rust, ... / more

Justice seems not to be for all: Exploring the scope of justice

... what the scope of justice is all about: who is within and who is outside of the “justice boundaries”. This paper intends to ... In social psychology, this group is referred to as the ingroup , i.e., a social group to which an individual feels that he or ... / more

The victim wars: How competitive victimhood stymies reconciliation between conflicting groups

Ask an Israeli about the conflict with Palestinians and you'll probably hear a tale of woe and victimhood. The strange thing is, if ... that arise when people witness misdeeds perpetrated by ingroup members (Smyth, 2001). By the same token, it may help to rationalize ... / more

The Role of Honor and Culture in Group-Based Humiliation, Anger and Shame

... a neighboring country. You are very excited about this event and invited your friends over to watch the game together. When the other team ... there is an outside threat to the reputation of important in-groups. In addition to nations, other important groups may be family, ... / more

Human, or Less than Human?

... the ages have puzzled over the nature of human nature , and so have contemporary psychological theorists. Are we rational animals, ... (“them”) as less human than members of their ingroup (“us”). They demonstrate this bias by showing that people are ... / more

Reconsidering Race in the Genetic Era

... conceptions (or preconceptions) of race affect our attitudes and behaviors. There is a long line of research examining phenomena such as prejudice , stereotypes , discrimination , in-group bias, stereotype threat , self-fulfilling prophecies, and a ... / more

Penetrating the Circle of Death: Why People are Dying (and Killing) Not to Die

... a unique place in our minds: it is both the sum of all fears and a kind of golden standard by which we measure an individual’s ... terror management: Effects of mortality salience on in-group bias, out-group aggression, and politics To understand the ... / more

Social Judgment: Warmth and Competence are Universal Dimensions

How do you make sense of Barack Obama and John McCain? The odds are that you judge them mainly on two dimensions: ... in most societies studied so far, what appears is an  ingroup  (a person’s own group, which forms the person’s social ... , it predicts active behaviors towards the member of the  outgroup : Active facilitation (helping) versus active harming (attacking). ... / more

‘The Vision Thing’

... vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. [John Welch, American businessman, ... emphasize what makes leaders  different  from other ingroup members in a way that undermines the collective meaning of the group, ... / more

Complementing Individualism with The Social Identity Approach

... you feel strongly about the sacredness of the Qur’an, and feel outraged when someone mocks your Holy Book. Or, alternatively, you ... researcher), their social world is divided into an in-group (that includes the self) and out-group (that excludes the ... / more