TY - JOUR
T1 - An evolutionary threat-management approach to prejudices
AU - Neuberg, Steven
AU - Schaller, Mark
N1 - Funding Information:
Steven Neuberg gratefully acknowledges the support of U.S. National Science Foundation grant 1 348983 . Mark Schaller gratefully acknowledges the support of Insight Grant 435-2012-0519 from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2016/2/1
Y1 - 2016/2/1
N2 - The article provides an overview of key insights that have emerged from an evolutionary approach to the psychology of prejudice. Within this framework, prejudices and related phenomena are viewed as products of adaptations designed by natural selection to manage fitness-relevant threats and opportunities faced by ancestral populations. This framework has generated many novel, nuanced, and empirically supported predictions regarding (1) the specific contents of prejudices, (2) the specific categories of people who are likely to elicit these prejudices, and (3) the specific contexts within which these prejudices are either more, or less, likely to be evoked.
AB - The article provides an overview of key insights that have emerged from an evolutionary approach to the psychology of prejudice. Within this framework, prejudices and related phenomena are viewed as products of adaptations designed by natural selection to manage fitness-relevant threats and opportunities faced by ancestral populations. This framework has generated many novel, nuanced, and empirically supported predictions regarding (1) the specific contents of prejudices, (2) the specific categories of people who are likely to elicit these prejudices, and (3) the specific contexts within which these prejudices are either more, or less, likely to be evoked.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.06.004
DO - 10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.06.004
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84938341515
VL - 7
SP - 1
EP - 5
JO - Current Opinion in Psychology
JF - Current Opinion in Psychology
SN - 2352-250X
ER -