University thesis:
Dissertation, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 2006
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Description:
Outgroup derogation is explicitly negative treatment based on the target’s membership in a particular social category. The present thesis addressed a mechanism potentially underlying outgroup derogation. Outgroup derogation is intergroup behavior, thus it does not bear on the target’s individual characteristics or its individual behavior. At the same time, outgroup derogation can be performed by an aggressor who was not personally affected by the instigation of the aggressive behavior. Outgroup derogation covers a wide range of behaviors, extending from derisive remarks to genocide.