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Discontinuity Effect
- motivated by fear and greed
- people don't trust the members
of other groups
- If the outgroup is cooperative, they
will take advantage of it.
- However, intergroup competitiveness is not inevitable
-
minimal group effect
- People are normally and naturally ready
to divide the world into "us" against "them"
and to hold prejudices agaisnt them
-
ingroup favoritism
- preferential treatment of,
or more favorable attitudes
toward, people in one's own
groups, a compared to people
in other groups
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Contact hypothesis
- regular interaction between
membersof different groups
reduces prejudice, providing
that it occurs under favorable conditions
- According to this hypothesis, negative prejudice arise
and survive because the two groups don't have much
contact with each other
-
competition
- situation in which people
can attain their goals
only if others do not
-
cooperation
- situation in which people must
work together with others to
help all achieve their goals