Intergroup Prejudice: Exploring Personality-Related and Situational Characteristics

Meshkova N.V.
PhD in Psychology, Associate Professor, Chair of Theoretical Foundations of Social Psychology, Faculty of Social Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russia
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3965-9382
e-mail: nmeshkova@yandex.ru

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The article presents materials of the empirical study on intergroup prejudice and its personality-related and situational features. The following outcomes of the study are described: the relation between prejudice and aggressive behaviour is conditioned by gender-role identity and temperament characteristics; 'partial' prejudice can be found in persons with 'basic non-hostility' of the worldview; other people's evaluations can affect the development of inadequate gender identity and provoke aggressive behaviour in persons with hypermasculine gender identity.

Keywords: intergroup prejudice, 'total' prejudice, 'partial' prejudice, gender identity, 'search for novelty', aggressive behaviour, hostility, worldview

Column: Experimental Research

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Meshkova N.V. Intergroup Prejudice: Exploring Personality-Related and Situational Characteristics. Sotsial'naya psikhologiya i obshchestvo = Social Psychology and Society, 2012. Vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 73–87. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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