Perceived Variability of Personal Characteristics in In-Groups and Out-Groups
- 1 September 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 7 (3), 523-528
- https://doi.org/10.1177/014616728173024
Abstract
Members of four undergraduate clubs rated their own club as more heterogeneous on a series of personal characteristics than they rated the three other clubs. This tendency was unrelated to the number of in-group or out-group members known, or to the degree of preference for the in-group.Keywords
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