The Importance of Being We: Human Nature and Intergroup Relations

American Psychologist

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 728-738

  Brewer, Marilynn B ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ethnocentrism; in group bias; intergroup relations; optimal distinctiveness theory; social identity

Indexed keywords

ART; ARTICLE; AWARDS AND PRIZES; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESS; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN CHARACTERISTIC; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

AWARDS AND PRIZES; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANS; PORTRAITS AS TOPIC; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; UNITED STATES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84857081687     PISSN: 0003066X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0003-066X.62.8.728     Document Type: Article

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