There are various theoretical approaches for understanding intergroup biases among children and adolescents. This article focuses on the social identity approach argues that existing research will benefit by more fully considering implications of this examining relations youngsters. These include (a) importance self-categorization, (b) role self-stereotyping group identification, (c) relevance ...

The Oxford Handbook of Intergroup Conflict has the primary aim to bring together the perspectives of social psychology and peace psychology on intergroup conflict, which the editor believes “have grown apart” over the “last several decades” (p. 3), and to “provide a more integrative and cohesive foundation for researchand practiceoriented scholars who seek to develop effective approaches for re...

The generalization of attitudes toward individual outgroup members into attitudes toward the outgroup as a whole can affect intergroup relations. However, little is known about the relative strengths of the generalization of negative and positive interpersonal attitudes into attitudes about the outgroup. The unique contribution of negative (disliking) interpersonal attitudes to intergroup attit...

INDIVIDUAL PROCESSES IN INTERGROUP BEHAVIOR ................................ 3 From Individual to Group Impressions ...................................................................... 3 GROUP MEMBERSHIP AND INTERGROUP BEHAVIOR .................................. 7 The Scope and Range of Ethnocentrism .................................................................... 8 The Development of Eth...

In 1994, a controversial book hit newsstands. Its claim was that the consistent gap in intelligent quotient (IQ) scores between Black and White students was the result of genetic differences between the races. This proposition that one class of people is intellectually inferior to another was not a new claim. In the 1800s, Sir Francis Galton was one of the early psychologists to study intellige...