Humans have a deep-seated tendency to categorize others into “us” and “them,” a process that occurs within fractions of a second. The study demonstrated that feedback monitored in the presence of an ...

In a virtual restaurant, your avatar’s face (and your customer’s behavior) may reshape bias. Here’s what anonymous ...

Humans tend to form groups, which often find themselves in conflict with rival groups. But why do people show such a ready tendency to harm people in opposing groups? A new study led by researchers at ...

Social psychologists have known for decades that working cooperatively with members of different social groups can reduce prejudice and intergroup conflict. In the classic Robbers Cave study, two ...

Ed Yong, who among other things is an oxytocin-news watchdog of late, highlights yet another study showing that oxytocin, sometimes typecast as the "love hormone," carries a dark side. In case, the ...

A new study involving more than 879,000 participants published this week challenges the assumption that liking an outgroup means disliking your ingroup. It sheds light on a 1940s study in which Black ...

RICHMOND, Va. (June 16, 2022) — Humans tend to form groups, which often find themselves in conflict with rival groups. But why do people show such a ready tendency to harm people in opposing groups? A ...