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Are Humans Born to Hate? Three Myths and Three Developmental Lessons about the Origins of Social Categorization and Intergroup Bias

Year: 2020

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: Are humans born to hate? The present chapter considers three common claims about the nature of social categorization—that humans are predisposed to racism, to dislike out-groups, and to think of differences between people in the same way as they think about differences between animal species—and addresses the developmental evidence on which these claims are based. Consideration of the processes underlying the emergence of these phenomena across childhood provides new insight into how to prevent the development of prejudice and improve inter-group relations.

Source: The MIT Press eBooks

DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11970.003.0022

Author: Marjorie Rhodes

Institution: New York University

Language: English

Topic: Social and Intergroup Psychology

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Award: “The Linguistic Transmission of Maladaptive Beliefs”