Misperceptions in Intergroup Conflict. Disagreeing About What We Disagree About

Disagreeing About What We Disagree About

Two studies examined misperceptions of disagreement in partisan social conflicts, namely, in the debates over abortion (Study 1) and politics (Study 2). We observed that partisans tend to exaggerate differences of opinion with their adversaries. Further, we found that perceptions of disagreement were more pronounced for values that were central to the perceiver’s own ideology than for values th...

What We Know Now About Bias and Intergroup Conflict, the Problem of the Century

After nearly a century’s study, what do psychologists now know about intergroup bias and conflict? Most people reveal unconscious, subtle biases, which are relatively automatic, cool, indirect, ambiguous, and ambivalent. Subtle biases underlie ordinary discrimination: comfort with one’s own in-group, plus exclusion and avoidance of out-groups. Such biases result from internal conflict between c...

What we mean when we talk about "conflict of interest".

Erythema nodosum :what should we consider about it?

What do we talk about when we talk about rhythm?

1 Department of Psychology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany, 2 Brain and Mind Institute, Department of Psychology, The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada, 3 Cognitive Neuroscience and Schizophrenia Program, Nathan Kline Institute, Orangeburg, New York, United States of America, 4 Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, Unite...