Traditional prejudice remains outside of the WEIRD world

Michal Bilewicz

doi:10.1017/S0140525X12001148

Traditional prejudice remains outside of the WEIRD world

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2012

Michal Bilewicz

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Michal Bilewicz*: Affiliation:
Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Center for Research on Prejudice, University of Warsaw, 00-183 Warsaw, Poland. bilewicz@psych.uw.edu.plhttp://bilewicz.socialpsychology.org/

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Dixon et al. accurately describe subtle mechanisms of discrimination that inhibit minorities' collective action in modern democratic societies. This commentary suggests that in contemporary non-Western societies, where ethnic conflicts are more violent, traditional overt forms of prejudice still exist and predict discrimination of ethnic and racial minorities. Thus, prejudice reduction models should and do improve intergroup relations in such contexts.

Type: Open Peer Commentary
Information: Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 35 , Issue 6 , December 2012 , pp. 427 - 428

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X12001148 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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