EdSource · How Mama Brown sent her neighborhood to college (Re-broadcast) As our country seems increasingly polarized, a new study from University of California Berkeley suggests that just getting ...

A study from Tilburg University, published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, has found that ...

Other people are boundless sources of social information. We try to understand the people around us by making inferences based on their appearances, their behavior, and their preferences. In fact, we ...

The U.S. political divide—the great chasm between right-leaning and left-leaning voters—is growing. One possible psychological explanation for this division is rooted in in-group, out-group bias, in ...

Prejudice and discrimination touch every corner of society, shaping the daily lives of marginalized groups worldwide. Whether it’s racial bias, cultural divides, or gender inequalities, these issues ...

Intergroup Theory shows how people naturally divide into groups, creating loyalty inside—but hostility outside. It’s the psychology behind prejudice and conflict.

Political Behavior, Vol. 39, No. 3 (September 2017), pp. 731-762 (32 pages) The American public remains largely moderate on many issues, but incivility and hostility are rife in American politics. In ...

The present studies investigated the out-group homogeneity effect in 5- and 8-year-old Israeli and German children (n = 150) and adults (n = 96). Participants were asked to infer whether a given ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. In boardrooms across America, a silent saboteur undermines decision making, stifles ...