Project

On the nature of prejudice: subroups as mental representation of social catagories

Code
01D30908
Duration
01 October 2008 → 30 September 2012
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Social psychology
Keywords
social categorization stereotypes prejudice subgroups social cognition
 
Project description

The aim of this project is to examine whether social catagories such as men/women and indigene/immigrant are mentally represented by subgroups of these categories, in contrast to what classic prototype and examplar models postulate. Furthermore, individual differences concerning the extent to which subgroups are used, are inspected in detail and the relation between mental representation and discrimination/prejudice is thoroughly investigated.