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Behavior and decisions in favor of a group with which an individual affiliates
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Living in groups implies that people develop attitudes and behaviors based on group membership. Identifying different groups is associated with asymmetrical reactions toward their members. Such asymmetries exist in various types of reactions: cognitive (biases), affective and attitudinal (prejudice), and behavioral (discrimination). Sometimes, researchers consider them as parts of the same process or use these terms as synonyms. However, most contemporary researchers agree that it is important to differentiate between prejudicial attitude and discriminatory behavior. At the behavioral level, people tend to allocate resources and make other decisions benefiting their group and prefer cooperation with the members of their group. Intergroup discrimination is thought to underlie variety of important social problems ranging from...
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Shkurko, A. (2019). Benefit Group Relative to Other Groups. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1630-1
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