Concept information
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industrial psychology
understanding and assessing individual differences
personality assessment
emotion
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cross-cultural psychology
multicultural psychology
conceptual issues in multicultural psychology
intergroup relations
Preferred term
intergroup anxiety
Definition
- Intergroup anxiety is the anxiety people feel when interacting with members of social groups different from their own (i.e., outgroups). For example, American employees who travel to Japan for work might be worried that they will unintentionally offend their Japanese counterparts. [Source: Encyclopedia of Group Processes & Intergroup Relations; Intergroup Anxiety]
Broader concept
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/intergroup_anxiety
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