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Prejudice and Descrimination
Psychological Bases and Policy Implications
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Undergraduate 3
02/28/2006

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Term
Realistic Group Conflict
Definition
Campbell (1965) and Levine&Campbell (1975)

-Competition for limited resources leads to conflict and animosity
-many historical examples (especially competition for land) seem to support
Term
categorization
Definition
-division into groups
-necessary for bias--Allport
-Bruner (1957):
-People are strongly inclined to group
things into conceptual categories on a
number of dimensions
-inevitable and necessary
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Differentiation
Definition
accentuation of differences between average attributes between groups
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Assimilation
Definition
underestimation of difference within groups
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