A Framework for the Emotional Psychology of Group Membership

The vast literature on negative treatment of outgroups and favoritism toward ingroups provides many local insights but is largely fragmented, lacking an overarching framework that might provide a unified overview guide conceptual integration. As result, it remains unclear where different perspectives conflict, how they may reinforce one another, leave gaps in our knowledge the phenomena. Our aim to start constructing help remedy this situation. We first identify few key ideas for creating theoretical roadmap complex territory, namely principles etiological functionalism dual inheritance theory human evolution. show “molecular” approach emotions fits into picture, use illuminate shape intergroup relations. Finally, we weave pieces together beginnings systematic taxonomy involved social interactions, both hostile friendly. While start, have developed argument way illustrates foundational proposed can be extended accommodate further cases.