Intergroup theory explores how people behave, think, and feel when they belong to different social groups like “us” versus ...

Prosecutors at the Manhattan district attorney's office intentionally violated Luigi Mangione's right to a fair trial by unnecessarily releasing his handwritten journal entries to "bias" the ...

Online labor platforms increasingly rely on customer ratings to evaluate worker performance, yet these systems and their opaque algorithms can unintentionally introduce racial bias, impacting ...

Ahmed, A. M. (2007). Group Identity, Social Distance and Intergroup Bias. Journal of Economic Psychology, 28, 324-337.

Loustau is a Ph.D. student in social psychology at Boston College, studying social identity, moral judgment, and intergroup bias. She is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and ...

This hostile attribution bias may contribute to increased intergroup hostility and authoritarian behavior in the long run, according to study co-author and NCRI Chief Science Officer Joel Finkelstein.

ABSTRACT: A child born into a dual-language speaking family has the potential to grow into an accent-free bilingual; yet, with all the ubiquity of bilingualism, this tongue is rare. While the mere ...

More information: Stefania Paolini et al, Negativity bias in intergroup contact: Meta-analytical evidence that bad is stronger than good, especially when people have the opportunity and motivation ...

Depending on the context, this differential processing could be harmless, lead to subtle forms of in-group favouritism or, in extreme cases, to intergroup violence. Bias doesn’t exist at birth.

Psychology professor Mina Cikara sat down with the magazine to discuss her influences and the psychology of discrimination. “Social psychology is rife with theorizing about all of the different ...