• DOI:10.1146/annurev.psych.53.100901.135109
• Corpus ID: 11830211

Intergroup bias.

@article{Hewstone2002IntergroupB,
  title={Intergroup bias.},
  author={Miles Hewstone and Mark Rubin and Hazel Willis},
  journal={Annual review of psychology},
  year={2002},
  volume={53},
  pages={
          575-604
        }
}

• M. Hewstone, Mark Rubin, H. Willis
• Published 2002
• Psychology
• Annual review of psychology

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, optimal distinctiveness, uncertainty reduction, social dominance, terror management); (c) key moderators of bias, especially those that exacerbate bias (identification, group size, status and power, threat, positive-negative asymmetry, personality and individual differences); (d) reduction of bias (individual vs. intergroup approaches, especially models of social categorization); and (e) the link between intergroup bias and more corrosive forms of social hostility.