You might think Americans wouldn’t care much about what’s on their state flags. But studying state identities has taught me that it doesn’t take much to stir people up about the symbols that ...

Elections, nepotism & sports teams: The battle between ingroup and outgroup A sports and performance psychologist decodes the human element of high performance in every sphere ...

Neuroscience Says That Your Brain Dismisses Outgroup Members Within a Fraction of a Second A problematic response that is hardwired into how the brain categorizes social groups.

A new study suggests that even when discrimination and fear of “the other” is rampant, contact between diverse groups can still reduce prejudice.

Some of the paralogy resolution methods used in this pipeline require an outgroup sequence for each of your genes. These outgroup sequences can be provided in two ways. Usage: The typical command for ...

Humanizing messages does almost nothing to increase empathy in people with high animosity toward an outgroup, although they do increase empathy in those who already view the group positively.

They found that participants who were more aggressive against outgroup members (students from a rival university) versus ingroup members (students from their own university) exhibited greater activity ...

Aggression toward outgroup members was also linked to greater post-exclusion activity in the rostral and dorsal medial prefrontal cortex during provocation from their outgroup opponent.

Aggression toward outgroup members was also linked to greater post-exclusion activity in the rostral and dorsal medial prefrontal cortex during provocation from their outgroup opponent.

Aggression toward outgroup members was also linked to greater post-exclusion activity in the rostral and dorsal medial prefrontal cortex during provocation from their outgroup opponent.

But although the notion that group solidarity leads inevitably to prejudice, animosity, and conflict is common, it is also incorrect and potentially dangerous. In our new book, the two of us argue ...

Social and psychological forces are combining to make the sharing and believing of misinformation an endemic problem with no easy solution.