Concept information
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psychology
cross-cultural psychology
multicultural psychology
conceptual issues in multicultural psychology
Preferred term
intergroup relations
Definition
- Intergroup relations involve the feelings, evaluations, beliefs, and behaviors that groups and their members have toward another group and its members. Negative intergroup relations typically involve prejudice (negative feelings and evaluations), stereotypes (beliefs about groups and their members), and discrimination (unfair treatment). [Source: Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology; Intergroup Relations]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- ageism
- ambivalent sexism
- assimilation and acculturation
- Attitudes Toward Women Scale
- authoritarian personality
- aversive racism
- banality of evil
- black sheep effect
- children: stereotypes and prejudice
- civil rights legislation
- collective guilt
- collective movements
- common ingroup identity model
- conspiracy theories
- cooperative learning
- cults
- desegregation
- diversity
- ethnolinguistic vitality
- evolutionary psychology
- extended contact effect
- frustrationaggression hypothesis
- gangs
- genocide
- Gordon Allport
- graduated reciprocation in tension reduction
- group emotions
- group position theory
- hate crimes
- Henri Tajfel
- homophobia
- immigration
- ingroup allocation bias
- institutionalized bias
- intergroup anxiety
- intergroup contact theory
- intergroup emotions theory
- intergroup empathy
- intergroup relations
- intergroup violence
- Islamophobia
- j-curve hypothesis
- jigsaw classroom technique
- justice
- just world hypothesis
- language and intergroup relations
- linguistic category model
- linguistic intergroup bias
- mergers
- minimal group effect
- minimal group paradigm
- minority coping strategies
- minority groups in society
- modern forms of prejudice
- modern racism
- modern sexism
- mutual intergroup differentiation model
- Muzafer Sherif
- nationalism and patriotism
- optimal distinctiveness theory
- other-total ratio
- Protestant work ethic
- racial ambivalence theory
- realistic group conflict theory
- relative deprivation
- right wing authoritarianism
- Robbers Cave Experiment
- scapegoating
- schisms
- self-categorization theory
- sexism
- social deviance
- social dominance theory
- social justice orientation
- social power
- stereotype threat
- stigma
- subjective group dynamics
- symbolic racism
- system justification theory
- territoriality
- terrorism
- terror management theory
- tokenism
- weightism
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/intergroup_relations
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