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Alves, Hans, Koch, Alex ORCID: 0000-0002-6267-8066 and Unkelbach, Christian ORCID: 0000-0002-3793-6246 (2018). A Cognitive-Ecological Explanation of Intergroup Biases. Psychol. Sci., 29 (7). S. 1126 - 1134. THOUSAND OAKS: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC. ISSN 1467-9280

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Abstract

People often hold negative attitudes toward out-groups and minority groups. We argue that such intergroup biases may result from an interaction of basic cognitive processes and the structure of the information ecology. This cognitive-ecological model assumes that groups such as minorities and out-groups are often novel to a perceiver. At the level of cognition, novel groups are primarily associated with their unique attributes, that is, attributes that differentiate them from other groups. In the information ecology, however, unique attributes are likely to be negative. Thus, novel groups, and by proxy minorities and out-groups, tend to be associated with negative attributes, leading to an evaluative disadvantage. We demonstrated this disadvantage in three experiments in which participants successively formed impressions about two fictional groups associated with the same number of positive and negative attributes. Participants preferred the first group over the novel group as long as the groups' unique attributes were negative.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Alves, Hans UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Koch, Alex UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-6267-8066 UNSPECIFIED Unkelbach, Christian UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-3793-6246 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-180684
DOI:	10.1177/0956797618756862
Journal or Publication Title:	Psychol. Sci.
Volume:	29
Number:	7
Page Range:	S. 1126 - 1134
Date:	2018
Publisher:	SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
Place of Publication:	THOUSAND OAKS
ISSN:	1467-9280
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Human Sciences Faculty of Management, Economy and Social Sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Human Sciences > Department Psychologie Center of Excellence C-SEB
Subjects:	Psychology
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language ILLUSORY CORRELATION; POSITIVITY BIAS; INFORMATION; SIMILARITY; VALENCE; TRAIT; ACCENTUATION; PERCEPTION; JUDGMENTS; FEATURES Multiple languages Psychology, Multidisciplinary Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/18068