▪ 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) …

Drawing on theories of social comparison, realistic group conflict, and social identity, we
present an integrative model designed to describe the psychological utility of social groups …

Although peace education encompasses a variety of activities and programs, its eventual
goal is to reduce intergroup conflict and to promote more harmonious intergroup relations …

In the s, the demise of the Soviet Union brought an end to the “Cold War” era with its
focus on relations between two political superpowers. In its aftermath, an apparent …

Optimal distinctiveness theory [Brewer, MB (1991). The social self: on being the same and
different at the same time. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 17 (5), 475–482] …

Inbar and Lammers asked members of APA Division 8 (personality and social psychology)
about their political orientation, hostility experienced related to their political orientation, and …

This book is a social psychological inquiry into identity in modern society. Starts from the
social psychological premise that identity results from interaction in the social world …

The author discusses the nature of in-group bias and the social motives that underlie
ethnocentric attachment to one's own membership groups. Two common assumptions about …

For over 25 years An Introduction to Social Psychology has been combining traditional
academic rigor with a contemporary level of cohesion, accessibility, pedagogy and instructor …

Notes that the optimal distinctiveness model is a theory of self that assigns primacy to the
role of group memberships and collective identity in defining the self-concept maintaining …