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Beyond stereotypes: Prejudice as an important missing force explaining group disparities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2022

Iniobong Essien Open the ORCID record for Iniobong Essien [Opens in a new window] ,
Marleen Stelter Open the ORCID record for Marleen Stelter [Opens in a new window] ,
Anette Rohmann Open the ORCID record for Anette Rohmann [Opens in a new window]  and
Juliane Degner Open the ORCID record for Juliane Degner [Opens in a new window]
Iniobong Essien
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, FernUniversität in Hagen, 58097 Hagen, Germany iniobong.essien@leuphana.de https://www.leuphana.de/en/institutes/ifsp/team/iniobong-essien.html marleen.stelter@fernuni-hagen.de https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/psychologische-methodenlehre/team/marleen.stelter.shtml anette.rohmann@fernuni-hagen.de https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/community-psychology/team/ Department of Social and Organisational Psychology of Social Work, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, 21335 Lüneburg, Germany
Marleen Stelter
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, FernUniversität in Hagen, 58097 Hagen, Germany iniobong.essien@leuphana.de https://www.leuphana.de/en/institutes/ifsp/team/iniobong-essien.html marleen.stelter@fernuni-hagen.de https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/psychologische-methodenlehre/team/marleen.stelter.shtml anette.rohmann@fernuni-hagen.de https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/community-psychology/team/ Department of Social Psychology, Universität Hamburg, 20146 Hamburg, Germany. juliane.degner@uni-hamburg.de https://www.psy.uni-hamburg.de/arbeitsbereiche/sozialpsychologie
Anette Rohmann
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, FernUniversität in Hagen, 58097 Hagen, Germany iniobong.essien@leuphana.de https://www.leuphana.de/en/institutes/ifsp/team/iniobong-essien.html marleen.stelter@fernuni-hagen.de https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/psychologische-methodenlehre/team/marleen.stelter.shtml anette.rohmann@fernuni-hagen.de https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/community-psychology/team/
Juliane Degner
Affiliation:
Department of Social Psychology, Universität Hamburg, 20146 Hamburg, Germany. juliane.degner@uni-hamburg.de https://www.psy.uni-hamburg.de/arbeitsbereiche/sozialpsychologie
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Abstract

We comment on Cesario's assertion that social psychological intergroup research focuses solely on stereotypes, neglecting actual differences between groups to explain group disparities. This reasoning, however, misses yet another explaining force: In addition to stereotypes, ample laboratory and field research documents relationships between group disparities, discrimination, and prejudice, which cannot be explained by people's accurate judgments of real-world group differences.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 45 , 2022 , e74
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