People all belong to a gender, race, age, and social economic group. These groups provide a powerful source of our identity and self-esteem (Tajfel & …
Humans are very diverse and although we share many similarities, we also have many differences. The social groups we belong to help form our identities …
During the 1950s, the landmark Robbers Cave experiment demonstrated that when groups must compete with one another, intergroup conflict, hostility, and …
When we hold a stereotype about a person, we have expectations that he or she will fulfill that stereotype. A self-fulfilling prophecy is an expectation …
As life expectancy increases, aging has become a major health challenge, resulting in a huge effort to better discriminate between normal and pathological …
