We Take Care of Our Own: Caregiving Salience Increases Out-Group Bias in Response to Out-Group Threat

Psychological Science

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1380-1387

  Gilead, Michael ^a   Liberman, Nira ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

evolutionary psychology; open data; racial and ethnic attitudes and relations

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; ATTITUDE; CAREGIVER; CHILD PARENT RELATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL BIAS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; ATTITUDE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CAREGIVERS; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PARENTING; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904328594     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797614531439     Document Type: Article

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