ERC Starting Grant · 2024
Prejudice and discrimination have undeniable consequences for people’s lives and well-being. Our knowledge of stereotyping and prejudice is predominantly based on studies of simple dichotomies of “us” vs. “them”, whereas every person we interact with in real life will simultaneously belong to multiple social groups. In this project, I introduce the differential information processing (DIP) model of intergroup attitudes to explain how we process information about others’ multiple group memberships to form impressions of them. The key proposition of the model is that the mechanisms of impression formation depend on inferences we make from social categories: categories that are seen as…
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