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Post by Petrichor Mon Oct 01, 2012 10:51 am


ABSTRACT

Hatred has not typically been a topic of research in the field of social
psychology, although several components which embody hatred have
been studied extensively in this field. Social psychologists have traditionally
considered prejudice, stereotyping, discrimination and intergroup
aggression to be highly important and socially relevant topics for
research, and thousands of studies by social psychologists have examined
these and other issues related to hatred. There are three primary
approaches social psychologists have utilized in studying prejudice and
intergroup aggression. The first approach may be thought of as a general
model of social influence in which a variety of situational factors have
been found to increase, or decrease, laboratory subjects’ proclivity to
engage in stereotyping or aggressive behavior. Particular types of situations
may promote hatred, such as when individuals in mobs behave in
ways they ordinarily would not. The second approach might be termed an
interpersonal attitude approach, in the sense that individuals are measured
in the degree to which they hold attitudes corresponding to authoritarianism
and social dominance, which in turn relate to social hostility and
prejudice. This approach, popular in the 1950s and 1960s, fell out of
favor during the past quarter century, and is currently experiencing a
revival of interest by researchers. The third approach focuses on social
cognition or the way in which humans perceive the social world in a
biased manner due to limits on the brain’s information processing capacity.
The social cognition approach in turn gave rise to social categorization
theory and social identity theory, both of which describe important
aspects of intergroup processes that explain outgroup derogation and discrimination.
Each of these three approaches describes aspects of what we
may commonly think of as hatred.

http://web02.gonzaga.edu/againsthate/journal3/GHS110.pdf

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