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stereotyping
You view strangers as more similar than they are.
Outgroup homogeneity is the tendency to perceive members of other groups as uniform.
You see your own group as composed of diverse individuals with unique motivations, yet you perceive outsiders as a monolithic group with identical behaviors. This simplifies the social landscape but leads to inaccurate stereotypes.
We use stereotypes to categorize a world we do not take the time to learn.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Quattrone & Jones, 1980
- What the check found
- The definition accurately captures the consensus view in social psychology, and Quattrone & Jones (1980) is the foundational study for this concept.
- Confidence
- Well replicated
Related
One of these every day, and every one names the study it came from. When a finding is contested, it says so.