title: All about us, but never about us: the three-pronged potency of prejudice.
abstract: Three points that are implicit in Dixon et al.'s paradigm-challenging paper serve to make prejudice potent. First, prejudice reflects understandings of social identity – the relationship of “us” to "them" - that are shared within particular groups. Second, these understandings are actively promoted by leaders who represent and advance in-group identity. Third, prejudice is identified in out-groups, not in-groups.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia. a.haslam@uq.edu.au
authors.forename: S Alexander
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Haslam
authors.forename: Katherine J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Reynolds
mesh_terms: D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D011287:Prejudice; D012933:Social Identification