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Intergroup Contact Theory: Past, Present, and Future

... of contact that drives modern school exchanges and cross-group buddy schemes. In the years since Allport’s initial intergroup ... contact may also have the unintended effect of weakening minority members’ motivations to engage in collective action aimed at ... / more

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

... in contexts where material and social resources are scarce, group members actively attempt to affirm that one’s own group has been ... Genocide committed by Hutu militias against the Tutsi minority in 1994. According to Noor and colleagues (Noor, Brown, Gonzalez, ... / more

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

... of your first cousin, or when a member of a religious group with which you strongly identify (e.g., Catholic) has been publicly ... 144-165. Leonardelli G., & Brewer M. B. (2001). Minority and majority discrimination : when and why.   Journal of ... / more

Social Judgment: Warmth and Competence are Universal Dimensions

... ordinary perceptions of other people as individuals or as group members. Judging people based on warmth and competence ... Asian people, Jewish people, female professionals, and minority professionals. These groups elicit envy and jealousy more than other ... / more

Everyone is prejudiced, too

... , what groups come to mind? In all likelihood, a social group that is disadvantaged in one way or another came to your mind: an ethnic minority group , women, gays and lesbians, immigrants, or others. If this is ... / more

Inequality: Minority disadvantage or White privilege? - And why it matters

... accepted framing of ethnic inequality is that it is minority disadvantage (Kluegel & Smith, 1986; Lowery & Wout, 2010; ... changes the implications of inequality for one’s group. Brian Lowery and Rosalind Chow use the following an analogy: ... framing inequality in terms of White advantage versus minority disadvantage plays out in the academic domain . It turns out that ... / more

Consensual non-monogamy: Table for more than two, please

... people consider “normal” (monogamy) in their social group may not be necessarily the best practice for everyone.  CNM appears to ... T. D. (in press). It's not just a gay male thing: Sexual minority women and men are equally attracted to consensual non-monogamy . ... / more

Children are poor witnesses. Or are they?

... were then assigned to different groups among which one group overheard an adult conversation about why the trick failed and how the ... original event. Research has shown that a significant minority of participants incorporate the misinformation into their ... / more

To affinity and beyond! How our preference to be among similar people interacts with our social ecology

... fact that the large university overall had a more diverse group of students. Another study conducted by sociologist Ishiguro (2011) ... When one population outnumbered the other 3:1 or 4:1, the minority population would very quickly form a large homogenous cluster. This ... / more

Does it matter if people are aware of their implicit racial bias?

... bias—automatic attitudes and beliefs that favor one ethnic group over another. Although people can be defensive, emerging research ... U.S. today, social norms make prejudice against minority groups unacceptable (Crandall, Eshleman, & O’Brien, 2002), and most ... / more