The perception of an out-group after provocation by one of its members.
How provocation by a single out-group member exacerbates perceptions of out-group dissimilarity was examined. Male American college students provoked by a Latvian college student not only perceived him as dissimilar from their own group of American college students but also perceived other Latvians (but not Senegalans, an irrelevant out-group) as dissimilar from American college students. Drawing negative inferences about the Latvian provocateur was correlated with perceiving other Latvians as dissimilar.
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Department of Psychology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA.
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D000378:Agonistic Behavior; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001290:Attitude; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D007844:Latvia; D008297:Male; D011287:Prejudice; D012929:Psychological Distance; D012933:Social Identification; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States; D014495:Universities