Social Psychology: Intergroup Bias

Intergroup bias is a complex human tendency that social psychologists have been investigating for decades. Intergroup bias relates to how we as humans tend to evaluate our own group and members more favourably than other groups and their members, and how we divide ourselves into favoured in-groups and disfavoured out-groups (Hewstone, Rubin & Willis, 2002).
Intergroup bias is a strong motivation for the sectarian conflicts tearing apart the Middle East, the increase in anti-immigrant attitudes and polices across Europe and even the police brutality against African Americans in the United States. According to findings from the Crime Survey for England and Wales between 2012/13 to 2014/15, there was an annual average of 222’000 reported hate