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What's so crummy 'bout peace, love, and understanding?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2012

Nick Haslam
Nick Haslam*
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne, Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia. nhaslam@unimelb.edu.au http://www.psych.unimelb.edu.au/people/staff/HaslamN.html
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Abstract

The target article challenges standard approaches to prejudice reduction, warning that they may inure people to inequality and deflect them from seeking collective solutions to it. I argue that the collective action approach has its own risks and limitations and that standard contact and common identity approaches may complement rather than work against it.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 35 , Issue 6 , December 2012 , pp. 434 - 435
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012 

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