Three broad themes that emerge from the social psychological research on unconscious or
implicit prejudice and stereotypes are highlighted in this article. First, individuals who belong …

The current article investigated how individuals evaluate ingroup members displaying either
ingroup bias or egalitarian intergroup behaviors. The hypotheses predicted that on explicit …

This chapter has two main objectives: to review influential ideas and findings in the literature
and to outline the organization and content of the volume. The first part of the chapter lays a …

Many scholars have proposed that people who reject one outgroup tend to reject other
outgroups. Studies examining a latent factor behind different prejudices (eg, toward ethnic …

Intergroup discrimination can be defined broadly as differential treatment of individuals
based on social category membership. In many contexts, discrimination takes the form of …

For the past 40 years, social psychological research on stereotyping and prejudice in the
United States has been dominated by the social cognition perspective, which has …

360 Cognitive Social Psychology to accumulate, specifically the tendency to implicitly
associate males with stereotypically masculine attributes (eg, aggression, strength) and …

The current research attempts to explain reversals of ingroup favoritism in terms of one of the
prevalent mechanisms generally used to account for positive ingroup bias: Tajfel's social …

▪ Abstract This chapter reviews the extensive literature on bias in favor of in-groups at the
expense of out-groups. We focus on five issues and identify areas for future research:(a) …

We propose that people treat prejudice as more legitimate when it seems rationalistic—that
is, linked to a group's pursuit of collective interests. Groups that appear to be coherent and …