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Project

Prejudice as a response to threat of epistemic security: an individual x situation analysis.

The present project aims to develop and expand the perspective on prejudice as a response to threaths to the sources of epistemic security in individuals high in need for closure. In three research lines (8 studies), we focus on different sources of epistemic security: the ingroup, the society, and the universal principle of a just world.

Date:1 Jan 2014 →  31 Oct 2018
Keywords:prejudice, need for closure, epistemic security, essentialism, ideology
Disciplines:Social psychology