Do Intergroup Conflicts Necessarily Result from Outgroup Hate?

Do Intergroup Conflicts Necessarily Result from Outgroup Hate?

We developed a new experimental design to test whether or not individuals engage in conflict between social groups because they seek to harm outgroup members. Challenging prominent social psychological theories, we did not find support for such negative social preferences. Nevertheless, subjects heavily engaged in group conflict. Results support the argument that processes that act within socia...

Weisel, Ori and Böhm, Robert (2015) “Ingroup love” and “outgroup hate” in intergroup conflict between natural

Mathematical Models of Intergroup Conflicts

The human society today is far from perfection and conflicts between groups of humans are frequent events. One example for such conflicts are armed intergroup conflicts. The collective behavior of the large number of cooperating participants in these conflicts allows us to describe the conflict on the basis of models containing only few variables. In this paper we discuss several cases of confl...

The Psychology of Prejudice: Ingroup Love and Outgroup Hate?

Allport (1954) recognized that attachment to one’s ingroups does not necessarily require hostility toward outgroups. Yet the prevailing approach to the study of ethnocentrism, ingroup bias, and prejudice presumes that ingroup love and outgroup hate are reciprocally related. Findings from both cross-cultural research and laboratory experiments support the alternative view that ingroup identifica...

The Psychology of Prejudice: Ingroup Love or Outgroup Hate?

Allport (1954) recognized that attachment to one’s ingroups does not necessarily require hostility toward outgroups. Yet the prevailing approach to the study of ethnocentrism, ingroup bias, and prejudice presumes that ingroup love and outgroup hate are reciprocally related. Findings from both cross-cultural research and laboratory experiments support the alternative view that ingroup identifica...