title: Adapting to a multicultural future.
abstract: Humans have an evolved propensity to think categorically about social groups. This propensity is manifest in cognitive processes that have broad implications for public and political endorsement of multicultural policy. Drawing on these principles, we postulate a cognitive-evolutionary account of human adaptation to social diversity. This account explains broad social trends marking a resistance to multiculturalism, while providing an important reorienting call for scholars and policy-makers seeking intervention-based solutions to the problem of prejudice.
authors.affiliation: Centre for the Study of Group Processes, School of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NP, UK. r.crisp@kent.ac.uk
authors.forename: Richard J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Crisp
authors.forename: Rose
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Meleady
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003071:Cognition; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D011287:Prejudice; D011640:Public Policy; D012919:Social Behavior