Recent advances in large-scale data collection have created new opportunities for psychological scientists who study intergroup bias. By leveraging big data, researchers can aggregate individual measures of bias into regional estimates to predict outcomes consequence. This small-but-growing area has already impacted the field with well-powered research identifying relationships between biases a...

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) measurement and conceptual issues (especially in-group favoritism vs. out-group derogation, and explicit vs. implicit measures of bias); (b) modern theories of bias highlighting motivational explanations (social identity, o...

Ethnic and racial intergroup attitudes are assumed to develop due to the influence of socialization contexts. However, there is still little longitudinal evidence supporting this claim. We also know little about the relative importance of socialization contexts, the possible interplay between them as well as about the conditions and mechanisms that might underlie socialization effects. This lon...

Different social groups have different relationship that are mostly characterized by prejudice and conflicts. Intergroup conflict usually attributed to negative behaviors between mainly underlies mistrust, hostility, aggression, discrimination. However, this study attempts determine how one’s intergroup attitudes may affect their intention behave other group members; specifically, whether the l...

The term ‘communal violence’ is commonly used in the South Asian context to refer to intergroup or ethnic violence. I contend that understanding intergroup violence purely within an inter-community or inter-ethnic framework is inadequate, in that it does not fully capture the processes of perpetration, impacts or mitigation of such violence. I suggests five areas where the categories of ‘commun...

Intergroup relations research has largely focused on relations between members of dominant groups and members of disadvantaged groups. The small body of work examining intraminority intergroup relations, or relations between members of different disadvantaged groups, reveals that salient experiences of ingroup discrimination promote positive relations between groups that share a dimension of id...

Longitudinal effects of intergroup contact on prejudice were investigated in a sample of 65 young adults (Sample 1) and a sample of their close friends (Sample 2, N= 172), adopting a full cross-lagged panel design. We first validated the self-report measure of intergroup contact from Sample 1 with observer ratings from Sample 2 by demonstrating that self-reports and observer ratings of contact ...

Prior research has shown that negative affect directed at the self follows from intergroup evaluation. Building on social identity theory, we hypothesized that ingroup identification impacts on felt self-directed negative affect after making intergroup differentiating evaluations. Additionally, prior work has demonstrated that people downgrade the outgroup to the extent that they identify with ...

Empirical findings in intergroup conflict literature show that individuals that hold beliefs that include differentiation from outgroups become radicalized as intergroup tensions escalate. They also show that differentiation is proportional to tension escalation. In this paper, we present and demonstrate an agent-based model that captures these findings to better understand the effect of percei...