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Conciliation and meta-contrast are important for understanding how people assign group memberships during conflict situations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2022

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Richard Philpot
Mark Levine
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Department of Psychology, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YF, UK mark.levine@lancaster.ac.uk r.philpot@lancaster.ac.uk https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/people-profiles/mark-levine https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/psychology/about-us/people/richard-philpot
Richard Philpot
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Department of Psychology, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YF, UK mark.levine@lancaster.ac.uk r.philpot@lancaster.ac.uk https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/people-profiles/mark-levine https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/psychology/about-us/people/richard-philpot
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Abstract

Pietraszewski misrepresents both the nature of behaviour in conflict and the ability of psychology to theorise the relational properties of group designation. At the behavioural level, he focusses exclusively on “attack,” when consolation/care in conflict is equally present and important. At the theoretical level, he ignores existing psychological work on how group perception is shaped by the meta-contrast principle.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 45 , 2022 , e112
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