Human social groups are central to social organization and pervasively impact interpersonal
interactions. Although immensely varied, all social groups can be considered specific …

We review emerging research on the psychological and biological factors that underlie
social group formation, cooperation, and conflict in humans. Our aim is to integrate the …

The primary aim of this chapter is to provide a framework to understand and synthesize the
processes of person construal—early perceptions that lead to initial ingroup/outgroup …

Extensive research has investigated societal and behavioral consequences of social group
affiliation and identification but has been relatively silent on the role of perception in …

Evidence indicates that superior memory for own-group versus other-group faces (termed
own-group bias) occurs because of social categorization: People are more likely to encode …

Intergroup discrimination can be defined broadly as differential treatment of individuals
based on social category membership. In many contexts, discrimination takes the form of …

A growing body of research shows that older adults, Black women, and other groups often
encounter stigmatization that manifests not as negative prejudice, but as indifference and …

In the current work, we extend the Categorization-Individuation Model (Hugenberg, Young,
Bernstein, & Sacco, 2010)—an existing model of the own race bias—to organize and …

Activity and social presence awareness of team members are crucial to promote positive
team outcomes such as team commitment and motivation. Communication between the …

Categorizing racially ambiguous individuals is multifaceted, and the current work proposes
social-motivational factors also exert considerable influence on how racial ambiguity is …