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In an intergroup context, examine the role of social stereotypes in prejudice and discrimination.
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In an intergroup context, examine the role of social stereotypes in prejudice and discrimination. Among all of the social cognition, stereotyping is the most obvious effect in intergroup behaviour. Intergroup behaviour is the behaviour among individuals that is regulated by those individuals' awareness of and identification with different social groups. Social influence and group processes are normally occurring within groups, but wherever there is a group to which people belong(i.e. ingroup), there are other groups to which those people do not belong (i.e. outgroup). (Hogg, 2005) In the ingroup differentiations hypothesis, people tend to perceive members of an outgroup as highly similar to each other whereas they tend to see all kinds of individual differences among members of their own groups. (Linville et al, 1989). The following essay will be focus on stereotyping, following by describing different kinds of stereotypes and how it leads to prejudices and discriminations. Apart from...
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