The area of intergroup relations focuses on the psychological processes involved in how individuals in groups perceive, judge, remember, reason about, feel about, and behave toward people in other groups. In this course, we will consider topics such as social identity, power and social hierarchy, social prejudice, perspective taking, and reconciliation processes between groups. For example, we will ask: What is the role of “basic” cognitive processes in intergroup conflict? How many social identifications can a person have? How can we measure concealed negative attitudes that people hold...
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